- “Dr. Fauci and the Covid Rule of Experts” – Humdinger of a piece by the Wall St Journal Editorial Board – the voice of common sense in American public policy
- “Lockdown hysteria led to an NHS cancer catastrophe – and the Government is in denial” – “Remember when, every night, the news used to update the total of Covid deaths?” asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. “I’d like to see the BBC and ITV start reporting the daily toll of lives lost because cancers (and heart disease) were found too late”
- “We’re at pandemic levels of death. Why is no one talking about it?” – “Excess deaths have averaged 1,000 a week for 15 weeks of this year,” writes Michael Simmons in the Spectator. “Yet unlike Covid deaths, they are met with silence”
- “The balance of forces at the fag-end of the Covid-era: update from Australia” – Down under, “the Fat Lady in the comic Covid opera is still singing” Phil Shannon tells L*** Lockdown Sceptics. But thankfully only “on half-lung power”
- “Australia’s Lockdown and Vaccine Narrative Has Fallen Apart” – “The biggest mistake,” writes Ramesh Thakur for the Brownstone Institute, was to hand over control to “chief health officers who tend to be bureaucrats more than leading scientists”
- “Unvaccinated Queensland teachers slapped with pay reduction” – Around 900 Queensland teachers, teacher aides, administration staff, cleaners and schools officers will have their pay docked on account of their failure to take a Covid jab, 7News reports
- “The NHS isn’t buying a Covid wonder drug – and its excuse makes no sense” – The Telegraph’s Suzanne Moore takes issue with the NHS’s decision not to purchase the drug Evusheld, despite its potential to protect vulnerable people from Covid
- “A belated vindication for school re-openers” – Over in Reason Mary Katherine Ham reviews The Stolen Year, a book chronicling the horrors wrought by keeping American kids away from school for more than a year
- “We need a robust ethical framework to curb the state’s use of behavioural science” –Psychologist Gary Sidley highlights the ethical implications of the Government’s use of ‘nudges’ to manipulate the population into abiding by the lockdown restrictions
- “Farewell to St. Anthony Fauci” – “Maybe Fauci was just a lot like Donald Trump or Joe Biden,” suggests Freddy Gray in Spectator World. “Old, faltering, and heavily influenced by the people around him”
- “Journalists who hate journalists (and journalism)” – Alex Berenson has found evidence that it was not only the Government that wanted Twitter to throw him off the platform, but his fellow journos as well
- “Twitter Restores Account of U.K. Doctor Sceptical of COVID-19 Vaccines After Permanently Suspending It” – Dr. Clare Craig’s Twitter account has been restored, the Epoch Times reports, just hours after it was permanently suspended
- “You are now allowed to claim masks don’t work” – Tim Pool reports that YouTube has updated its policies and no longer bans claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the spread of Covid
- “You Can Be Sure That Net Zero Carbon Emissions From Electricity Generation Will Never Be Achieved. Here’s Why” – “If you have a chance to make a bet, you’ll be extremely safe betting against Net Zero generation of electricity any time during your life,” says Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian
- “Biden’s War On Natural Gas Will Kill” – Michael Shellenberger points out that President Biden could save lives by simply expanding rather than supressing natural gas production
- “The Dream of Nuclear-free, Net-Zero Nirvana” – D. V. Williamson, the Free-Range Economist, charts the course of “a predicted and predictable nightmare” that is unfolding in Central Europe as the cold season approaches
- “Hungary’s Michael Fish moment as top forecaster fired for ruining ‘Europe’s biggest fireworks show’” – A firework display celebrating a Hungarian national holiday was postponed after forecasters warned of an extreme storm, the Telegraph reports. The storm didn’t happen and the forecasters have been sacked
- “Salman Rushdie: The Hour is Late” – “The cowardice of the West in the defence of free speech is not unexpected,” writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative. “But the pace at which capitulation has become fashionable is truly frightening”
- “Will Truss or Sunak really defeat the woke blob?” – “Conservative rhetoric requires conservative action,” says Henry Hill in UnHerd, as he challenges the next PM to show he or she is serious about ending woke recruitment practices in the armed forces
- “The police must show they care more about tackling crime than being woke” – Writing for CapX, Luke Tryl discusses the results of a poll which found that the public is much more likely to agree than disagree that “the police are more interested in being woke than solving crimes”
- “Exam boards to record GCSE and A-level results of transgender pupils” – After consulting with Stonewall and others, exam chiefs have drawn up plans to record the GCSE and A-level results of trans pupils, MailOnline reports
- “Create U.K. public holiday to remember horrors of slave trade, says race expert” – “If you think about just how important slavery was to Britain and how horrific it was, it should be a national memorial; there should be a day off,” says Professor Kehinde Andrews, quoted in the Guardian. To date, he hasn’t suggested a day of remembrance in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco for the Barbary slave trade
- “Chinese censors alter ending of Minions movie” – Chinese authorities have changed the ending of Minions: The Rise of Gru to ensure the villain is caught by the police, according to the Times
- “Olaf Scholz’s implosion is a brutal lesson for Keir Starmer” – “Labour seems to think Scholz and his SPD are some sort of model to follow,” says Iain Dale in the Telegraph. “They’d be far better off looking elsewhere”
- “Bullying and racism are rife in Cabinet Office, says leaked report” – An internal review of the Cabinet Office, seen by the Times, has found that one in 10 employees in the Cabinet Office suffered from bullying, harassment or discrimination
- “Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast review – almost entirely preposterous” – James Marriott reviews Meghan Markle’s new podcast Archetypes for the Times. It’s a “tastefully soundtracked parade of banalities, absurdities and self-aggrandising Californian platitudes,” he says. Shock!
- “This is just absolute nonsense” – Dan Wootton is not impressed with Meghan’s new podcast
'This is just absolute nonsense'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 23, 2022
Dan Wootton reacts to comments made by Meghan Markle in a recent podcast where she says she felt attacked for being ambitious.GB News on YouTube https://t.co/KHMl3BSG4a pic.twitter.com/rP98SMxZfZ
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Good morning fellow Sceptics…
into the valley
betrothed and divine
realisations no virtue
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Let’s go…
And a jolly good morning to you too, HP!
Here’s to the thrust and parry of some nimble verbal fencing, with the occasional slash and swipe not to forget our noble frowntickers and their inverted thumbs!
Cheers Aethelred
“The NHS isn’t buying a Covid wonder drug – and its excuse makes no sense”
So says Suzanne Moore in The Torygraph. I would have thought, given the enormous damage the injections have caused and will continue to cause that the last thing the world needs now is another bloody “safe and effective” so-called “wonder drug.”
Hasn’t this woman learnt anything?
Sensibly, a complete moratorium should be enforced with regard to new Pharma products until they have undergone ten years of trials – even if it’s only a bar of soap.
Given that they can’t even be trusted to make baby powder without a liberal sprinkling of asbestos, I would agree.
Thank you.
“Farewell to St. Anthony Fauci” by Freddy Gray.
Good grief, the murderous bastard isn’t dead yet and already the apologias are out.
Pathetic.
“Hungary’s Michael Fish moment as top forecaster fired for ruining ‘Europe’s biggest fireworks show’
Victor Orban clearing out some Fifth Columnists.
Excellent.
I think the legacy of the Michael Fish moment is the defensive nature of modern forecasts, and maybe even the attitude of those who follow the “climate change” agenda.
Can’t believe we’re reading shocked articles at the rise in untreated cancer…didn’t they read Lockdown Sceptics?
In Cambridge our local woke police morons wear rainbow helmets whilst county lines drug gangs go reported and unchallenged.
On ‘Net zero’ remember that solar panels and batteries are made of green fairy dust and not litium ion, silicones and plastics!
Finally, now all these journo’s are waking up (especially at the DT) does anyone know where Paul Nuki (knucklehead) has gone?
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“Exam boards to record GCSE and A-level results of transgender pupils”
Oh look, a new victim industry in the making. Next there will be Trans Pupil Exam Sub Boards to decide on the degree of grade inflation this sub-set are entitled to as a result of their trans victim status.
Marvellous. So inclusive.
“Create U.K. public holiday to remember horrors of slave trade, says race expert.”
The Groan, wherelse?
Any excuse to rewrite history and down tools at the same time. It’s a Win Win.
Do we really need endless public holidays to remember our transgressions? Must every month come with some sort of promotional capacity – Veganuary? Movember? Octopusober? We already have Black History month and I’m OK with that but must all these dates be thrust upon us? Now it’s Pride month, not just a day but a month. They can enjoy their sexual status until the cows come home in my book but do I need to be constantly reminded how proud they are? (Pride one of the 7 deadly sins by the way). Soon there won’t be room for anything else and it all passes way over my head and below my radar anyway because I don’t take any notice of any media news whatsoever – don’t read any online papers, don’t watch TV, don’t listen to radio apart from Classic Fm which is the only radio station my car radio can play apparently and I always click off for news and adverts. So, I’m in the dark about all this stuff. I can imagine surfacing in a few years in the middle of ‘Romans Sorry For Slaughtering Gauls’ week or ‘Remembering Frenchmen at Agincourt’ month. ‘Sorry for being pinky-beige’ week…’Dodo remembrance Day’…where does it all end? ‘God sorry for creating humans’ month?
Another way to shaft what is left of the manufacturing base….
But you can bet that the Bloody Assizes from 1685 & the shipping of 800 men captured at the battle of Sedgemoor to be transported & sold into slavery in the West Indies will be quietly removed…
Can’t have it be known that white men suffered the same sad fate as the Africans can we….?
Morning all. Here’s an excellent report on the Covid ‘vaccine’ evidence, written by a PhD pharmacist. Its very comprehensive ( skip to page 42 for the conclusion which sums up everything very nicely ) but handy to download and keep as a reference or share.
https://nzdsos.com/2022/08/23/covid-19-vaccine-evidence/
Good morning Mogs. Message in your DS inbox. I think.
Hey hux. Thanks for the message. I didn’t even know there was a function by which we can PM one another. But how do I reply?? LOL! There’s nothing to click on. There’s a notice at the bottom which says I’m not allowed to private message anyone until I post something on the forums first. Bit strange, unless there’s some rationale there that I’m missing…Anyway, I’ve never hung out on the forums before so I will endeavour to post something random over there in a bit. Jeez, what a faff!
I needed the kind assistance of ‘Transmissionofflame’ to explain how to send a message. And, there are no alerts so if we don’t check we could be considered rude.
Well I did a couple of posts and they’re seemingly still awaiting moderator’s approval. I guess they’re all on holiday…No wonder the forums seem extremely dull with barely any activity when compared to these comment sections, where no moderator’s approval is necessary for some reason…
OK, so given that you can PM me but I can’t PM you, why don’t you send me your email address and I’ll email you back? With regards to a method of communication its six and two threes to me.
Done.
https://youtu.be/wseAVK7l9hc
The Katie Hopkins youtube from last night.
Well worth a watch for revelations on the aviation industry.
Thanks for the link. Downloaded and shared the pdf.
Brilliant piece of work by Philip Altman.
““We’re at pandemic levels of death. Why is no one talking about it?”
Yet another MSM article failing to raise the possibility that the jab could be causing excess deaths.
It’s all a mystery. Befuddled and baffled scientists desperately try to find out why such huge numbers of people are dying. In Wyoming, ‘Unknown Causes’ is the leading cause of death as no doubt it is in many other places too. We really must put our best minds to this and find out why so many young people now have SADS and why sportspeople are dying on the pitch, court or track. Such a massive mystery. Still the MSM holds its line and we are to believe they’re really good guys, as one insider said, who genuinely don’t know what is happening. What tosh! They’re saying nothing, especially now, since they are not going to give away their jobs easily and default on their mortgages. They can see the inflation – monetary that is – and the ‘cost of lying’ crisis. They’re not fools. They’re just not very brave either. I sort of don’t blame them and at the same time blame them entirely. Their acquiescence is contributing to all the problems. They’re the front line of the Great Propaganda Machine after all. If we had more journalists stepping up and out, this huge lie would crumble away. Yes, they’d probably be sacked but they could not cover up such a massive move. They wouldn’t have the staff to write all the columns and opinions pieces. It would be a disaster for the elite to see the veil slipping away from their monstrous lies. It just needs one snowball for an avalanche….so if you are a MSM journalist reading this comment, come on, be a snowball. They might even name a public holiday after you!
“In Wyoming, ‘Unknown Causes’ is the leading cause of death as no doubt it is in many other places too”
Yep Alberta Canada
https://youtu.be/G-2rylp-oWw
The MSM journalists are either believers in this nonsense like our friends and family that just can’t be convinced or, if they suspect something, prefer to keep quiet to keep their jobs, or they leave and join substack or some other free speech format.
For that reason I don’t think we will see any change in MSM reporting, just instructed narrative diversions like lockdowns have caused excess deaths and our health system is under immense strains because of the backlogs from lockdowns, or our food and gas prices are going up because of Putin, climate change is humanity’s fault and carbon emissions is the main culprit….
We will continue to see the split between reality based underground journalism and corporate/government propaganda.
The vax damages are increasing the numbers seeking the former though, no doubt about that.
Could “Unknown Causes” soon become the leading cause of death in both Alberta and Scotland? The cycling community is getting concerned.
Cycling community?
Maybe because of this…
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/cycling-star-dies-sleep-age-24837948
A cycling star has died suddenly in his sleep just days after winning a national title. Rab Wardell was just 37 when he passed away.
On Monday night he appeared on television after winning the elite men’s title at the Scottish mountain biking championships. And on the show he joked how the event had been a ‘bit of a disaster’ after facing three punctures but still going on to take the top spot….
A very good piece about masks and the whole absurdity of wearing the dratted things and what it signifies, as written by a psychiatrist. He obviously doesn’t subscribe to the official 9/11 narrative either.
https://nzdsos.com/2022/08/24/propaganda-the-covid-face-mask/
Thanks Mogs. Excellent read.
Cheers Mogs! Masks…there’s something ever so slightly religious about them. I find the ones that people have specially bought to make their faceless faces more interesting quite, er, interesting. It’s as if they are desperate to maintain an identity of sorts. Then there are those who wear a well soiled blue rag that lives in the door well of their cars and is brought out to cross thresholds and act as a sort of begrudging compliant nod to the mask police while still having a slight rebellious air. The first time I donned one, I wore my bandana. It was when I lived in Portugal in 2020. I was trying to get into a Lidl. The Gatekeeper, a burly security guard, said I needed a proper mask. I said this is a proper mask but he wasn’t having it so I had to buy the first of two blue surgical masks from the pharmacy, wearing my bandana to cross the threshold. I begrudgingly wore one for a while, always below my nose, then in the UK went back to my bandana before finally dispensing with it altogether early last year. The sudden freedom I felt was enervating. Never ever again will I wear this muzzle.
Haha…I relate so much! At the start you couldn’t move for YT videos of how to make homemade masks out of socks or bits of T-shirts, so we got crafty in the house and made some daft face coverings. A fun kids’ activity. But sitting on the bus, sweating and hyperventilating as you try and breathe through a sock, whilst no doubt looking like you’re on a ward day out from the local psychiatric hospital soon put paid to all of that nonsense. I also evolved to wearing it below my nose until I got past the driver on the bus then it’d be shoved below my chin.
In shops I did the chin hammock thing then just stopped wearing them at all as I wanted to stop looking like a numpty and signalling my compliance for something I knew to be utter codswallop. I think the main reason most wore masks in shops etc wasn’t because they actually ever feared a virus, it was the fear of not conforming then getting into trouble because of it. That was my anxiety at the beginning. But I never got pulled up for not wearing one and like you I will never go back.
Pinned this site to my favourites bar. Thanks again.
Yes I like that site a lot. They update regularly and have a decent range of articles, so it’s a shame it never makes it on to the Round-Up on this site.
IIRC, Neil Ferguson’s model was eventually published. Apart from the virus propagation aspect, did it include the impact of delayed cancer/heart treatment, of vaccine adverse effects and of economic adverse effects? If not, was a more encompassing model, using these non-viral factors, used by the politicians in resolving The Trolley Problem in spring 2020?
I’m guessing that the various numerous “inquiries” into the handling of the pandemic will have convoluted terms of references. The outcome may be (i) every public organisation blames each other for the disaster (ii) every public organisation congratulates each other on the success and blames the general public for any negative outcome (ii) declares black to be the new white and hence that the outcome was a success as it could have been a lot worse (according to updated Imperial models) (iii) lessons will be learnt, going forward, drawing a line… blah blah. Finally, everybody in the state sector gets honours and the general public get bills.
Food shortages are now due to ‘climate change’…
Nothing to do with the shenanigans of the hidden actors at all. Honest….
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-23/europe-s-drought-may-be-continent-s-worst-in-at-least-500-years
Preliminary findings of contents of “vaccine” vials – not good…
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22140176-report-from-working-group-of-vaccine-analysis-in-germany
Excuse the long post, but here’s an email from Sir Christopher Chope MP who has been campaigning to get recognition and compensation for victims of covid “vaccine” damage. I have mixed feelings about this. The man himself IMO deserves nothing but praise for picking up an issue that will make him very unpopular with his party bosses and many others. On the other hand you could see it as providing a safety valve when what should be happening is the whole vaxx program exposed as the folly and evil it is. I tend to think that any official recognition that the “vaccines” can do damage is probably in our favour; others may disagree.
“Please see below an update regarding the latest developments in my work concerning adverse effects following a Covid-19 vaccination.
You will remember that in the previous Parliamentary session, I held an Adjournment Debate concerning the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979, introduced a Private Members’ Bill on the issue and had several meetings with the respective Ministers to ensure that Covid-19 vaccine harm was being given appropriate attention and that appropriate action was being taken to help those affected.
The good news is that the Government has now begun processing the claims for payment under the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme. It is using Crawford & Company and the National Health Service Business Authority is administering the process. As of 15 July, 174 claims relating to Covid-19 vaccinations containing full medical records are said to have been submitted for assessment. Also as of 15 July, 11 claims are said to have been concluded. I shall continue to seek to update this information but the questions due for answer have only been answered by the Government after a considerable amount of time, which is extraordinary.
On the issue of medical help for those suffering from serious adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccinations, I asked the Minister whether the Government would establish specialist clinics on similar lines to those already set up for the treatment of those with long Covid. The Minister’s disappointing reply was as follows: “in the very rare event where an individual may have suffered a severe adverse reaction to a Covid-19 vaccine, care would usually be managed by local NHS specialist services supported by national specialist advice if required. Continuing care would be met by local care services with expertise in the treatment of disease or disability as appropriate.” It remains incomprehensible that the Government is not recognising that specialist clinics for those suffering from vaccine damage are every bit as important as such clinics for those with long Covid. When Parliament returns on 5 September, I shall continue to ask questions of Ministers and can only hope that the quality of answers will be better than before.
A further piece of good news is that in response to representations from me and other interested parties, I am delighted to note that the formal Terms of Reference of the Covid-19 Inquiry were changed to include review of “the development, delivery and impact of therapeutics and vaccines“. In the Inquiry’s Consultation Document, it states this was introduced to “consider all aspects of the vaccination rollout, including adverse reactions and side-effects as well as the adequacy of compensation arrangements for such cases“, which is a very positive development. I understand from the Inquiry Chair’s opening statement that vaccines will be considered in a separate module later in the process.
I have also introduced a revised version of my previous Private Members’ Bill, entitled the Covid-19 Vaccine Damage Bill. The Bill seeks to place a duty on the Secretary of State to make provision about financial assistance to persons who have suffered disablement following vaccination against Covid-19 and to the next of kin of persons who have died shortly after vaccination against Covid-19, and to require a review and report on a no-fault compensation scheme to those adversely affected or bereaved by Covid-19 vaccinations. I have introduced the Bill to promote awareness and support for this issue. The Bill will be printed at the beginning of September and is scheduled for its second reading on 16 September 2022.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Covid-19 Vaccine Damage has now been established under my Chairmanship. Its stated purpose is:
“To ensure scrutiny of the safety profile of Covid-19 vaccinations; provide a forum for those harmed or bereaved from Covid-19 vaccinations and review financial arrangements available to them; to ensure that the health services respond and provide care to those who have continuing conditions caused by Covid-19 vaccinations.”
The APPG has been formally registered and its first meeting will be held shortly.
If you are not a constituent of mine, I would ask that you please write to your own MP to urge them to become involved and support this issue. With your and their support, I hope that we can build on the real progress we have been making.
I much appreciate your encouragement and support and shall endeavour to continue to keep you informed of progress.
With best wishes,
Sir Christopher Chope OBE MP”
Thanks for posting Tof.
https://www.technocracy.news/energy-crisis-thousands-of-uk-firms-could-collapse-and-disappear/
It takes a US Alt News site to report what our own press should have been reporting two years ago. Finally, the CBI have decided that perhaps they should start some muttering.
https://www.technocracy.news/technocracys-war-on-the-essential-elements-of-life/
Nothing we don’t know on here but simple enough to forward to sheep colleagues, as in not likely to over tax their grey matter.
So Frank is surprised at a frightened, cowed population in the face of un relenting attacks on the family and communities? Seriously?
You know, the vicar at my grandfather’s funeral had it right. He (and many of his generation) were more tolerant than many people today. And unquestionably braver.