- “Covid infections jump 29% in a week in England” – ONS statisticians estimate around 1.1 million people were infected with the virus on any given day in the week up to September 24th in England, according to the Mail.
- “Wetherspoon faces ‘challenge’ to persuade punters back after lockdown” – Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin said it is facing “a momentous challenge” to persuade pubgoers back after they got used to drinking cheap supermarket beer during the pandemic, the Mail reports.
- “The Real Reason Vaccine Mandates are Wrong” – Julie Ponesse at Brownstone says the vaccine mandates are wrong because “they trample on the very thing the noblest version of a liberal democratic society should be trying to create”.
- “Fauci’s Peculiar Defense of EcoHealth Funding” – Jeffrey Tucker in the Epoch Times writes that the shady EcoHealth Alliance, which was involved in gain-of-function coronavirus research in Wuhan and has not cooperated with investigations in the virus origins, received another $3m in September for new virus research; Fauci’s bizarre defence was that he was supposedly legally obliged to give it to them.
- “April Was the Cruellest Month” – Wood House takes a deeper look at how many died due to ventilators, poor treatments and other ill-conceived interventions in NYC.
- “Christine’s law; lest we forget” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson on the need to do much better with care homes during disease outbreaks.
- “Shot through the heart? Post-booster excess deaths in Japan” – Guy Gin looks at the data and finds non-Covid excess deaths at the start of 2022 in New Zealand and Japan were associated with booster rollouts.
- “The worldwide flight from mRNA shots continues” – Australia has quietly stopped recommending more Covid vaccines for almost everyone under 50, and Norway under 65, writes Alex Berenson.
- “Ebola: This is Not ‘Over’” – Dr. Robert Malone is concerned about gain-of-function research to ‘aerosolise’ Ebola, which sounds like a really bad idea.
- “Peter McCullough: Welcome to Twitter Heaven. We’ve been expecting you!” – Steve Kirsch writes that Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most highly respected cardiologists in the world, is now banned from Twitter: “He’s always been very careful with his tweets, but not careful enough.”
- “Deluded green narratives around oil and gas must not allow us to surrender our energy security” – Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg writes in the Telegraph that the U.K. will need to continue to import fuels from abroad but “will also not rest on our laurels when it comes to homegrown renewable energy”.
- “Smart meter payouts to be made permanent to help meet Net Zero goals” – National Grid is offering to pay households for reducing smart meter use during peak hours on days when wind is low to avert blackouts, according to the Telegraph.
- “The vaccine victim seeking answers from Dame June Raine” – Charlet Crichton writes in TCW Defending Freedom that after her second AstraZeneca jab in February last year, she had a reaction causing acute numbness, tremors and more than 30 other symptoms and is now seeking answers from the MHRA.
- “I just notified Dr. John Su at the CDC that the ‘death’ safety signal was triggered for the Covid vaccines” – Steve Kirsch has let the CDC expert who is in charge of monitoring the VAERS system for safety signals that the ‘death’ safety signal has been triggered and invites readers to do so as well.
- “Pfizer faces backlash for creating pro-vaccine Marvel comic: Experts say PR tactic is ‘ethically dubious in the extreme’” – The Mail reports that experts warned the comic appears to be promoting the vaccines to children.
- “NSTA launches 33rd Offshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round” – The North Sea Transition Authority is inviting applications for over 100 licences to look for oil and gas in a sign of a new stress on energy security.
- “The climate scaremongers: Hurricane Ian and climate porn” – Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom runs through the evidence that counters the media narrative that climate change is responsible for Hurricane Ian.
- “Only 45% of young Britons support U.K. role in Ukraine, poll suggests” – Less than half of young people support Britain’s current role in the Ukraine conflict, according to a survey carried out for the Times.
- “The West is in denial over Putin’s nuclear bombs” – The idea he is bluffing is naïve, and it fails to understand how Russia views this war; we must prepare for the worst scenario, writes Bob Seely in the Telegraph.
- “Detransitioners can no longer be ignored” – Lauren Smith in Spiked says their very existence explodes the claims of the trans lobby.
- “How the EU is Forcing Twitter to Censor (and Musk Can’t Stop It)” – Robert Kogon in Brownstone writes that the EU’s Digital Services Act is imposing EU censorship on the entire world.
- “White students banned from Black History Month events at Westminster University” – The “tragic” decision by the students’ union sees the institution accused of “racial segregation” and sowing “interethnic suspicion and division”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Anthony Horowitz says cancel culture has forced him to ‘shut up’” – The multi-million selling author has decided to write stories that don’t upset anyone so that his books don’t end up “damaged”, reports the Mail, in the latest sign of the self-censorship of cancel culture.
- “Social media drives number of transgender hate crime reports up by 56%” – The Mail reports there were 155,841 ‘offences’ recorded in England and Wales over the year to March, up 26% from the previous year in the biggest rise for five years, in a worrying sign of the growing suppression online of gender critical views.
- “We don’t let our children dabble in crack cocaine. Why do we let them dabble in social media?” – As further details of the tragic suicide of Molly Russell emerge, is it time to consider a ban on social media for children, asks UsforThem’s Molly Kingsley.
- “NHS doctor and trustee of controversial Mermaids charity sparks fresh trans row after describing biological sex as a ‘concept’ – as furious campaigners hit back: ‘It’s a fact of nature… every human being is either male or female’” – Dr. Katie McDowell, who works at King’s College Hospital in south London, appears to have a worryingly weak grasp of biology.
- “Sturgeon insists ‘abusive men’ are a risk to women, ‘not trans women’ ” – The Mail reports that Nicola Sturgeon has doubled down in her row with J.K. Rowling over trans rights, telling an interview that “abusive men are the risk to women, not trans women”, apparently deliberately ignoring the basic points that gender critical activists are making.
- “Harvard hospital claims ‘babies know in womb if they’re transgender’” – In a now-deleted video, the Boston Children’s Hospital suggests infants know they’re transgender “as soon as they can talk”, reports the Mail.
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Regarding the Times article about Apple above ( which I haven’t read as I have no time for paywalls ), I had no idea what a horrible and unethical company they were until I read this fine substack from A Midwestern Doctor, which covers many things as well as the current protests in China;
“The current protests we are facing are a result of this system being used excessively. Things in China have now reached the point that many Chinese citizens are willing to risk relocation to a concentration camp (which is not a pretty subject to discuss) to protest what is happening (similarly many Iranians have recently been imprisoned or worse for protesting against the government). China’s government is predictably responding to this instability with even more heavy-handed tactics and initiating a downhill spiral of unsuccessful propaganda (which will be revisited later). As stated before, I believe this cycle is ultimately being initiated by China’s economic instability.
China’s present situation should make the absolute futility of our preferred method for managing COVID-19 apparent. Even with an elaborate system that tracks every (vaccinated) citizen, imposes draconian lockdowns at will, and tests on an almost daily basis, nothing can be done to contain the spread of COVID-19 and when the system is dialed up as high as it possibly can go, the existing government will break before the spread is stopped.”
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-current-protests-in-china-are
“China’s present situation should make the absolute futility of our preferred method for managing COVID-19 apparent”
And that’s the problem. The doctor believes in convid when the reality is that the C1984 is basically a rebranded ‘flu which was introduced in order to get Agenda 2030 up and running. Which is why I have little time for endless talking about C1984.
With ref the recent royal racism crisis; I read what was apparently a fairly complete account of the dialogue, and Lady Hussy was in my opinion racist and/or extraordinarily dumb/demented because she appeared to repeatedly refuse to accept that the local community project representative in front of her was a British citizen, a British resident, and insisted on knowing where their “people” came from. It sounded as if Lady Hussy simply couldn’t conceive of such an obviously black person being British, a British citizen and resident, and was impatiently condescending/contemptuous in her efforts to “get at the truth” of where this person “really” came from … or was being provocative/deliberately obtuse/offensive. There was definitely something wrong. I do understand why her reactions caused offence, even distress.
The person she was speaking to was very clearly not ethnically British and had apparently changed her name from a British one to Ngozi Fulani, so it was perfectly reasonable to ask about her origins.
Not after she had already answered that question and said she was from England.
PS. I also thought that it was a mountain out of a molehill when I first read about it, but reading the account of the full exchange I understood why it was upsetting.
…. people, on both the giving and receiving ends of such reactions, used to laugh about this sort of thing, laugh it off, dismiss it as just business as usual; it was normal, etc ….
.. but it can’t be very pleasant, especially in a situation where you believe that you can’t answer back, can’t say what you think about the reaction, etc.
I agree with Fulani that Lady Hussey shouldn’t have lost her post over it though. *That* is where the lack of proportion lies.
I think the big problem is that the setting/context didn’t allow or encourage Fulani to speak up, to call Lady Hussey out about it at the time. She didn’t seem to think that she could say what she thought to Lady Hussey, the occasion and the place ( and Lady Hussey’s title too ?) silenced her.
I remember a black colleague recounting the time there was National Front march along her street when she was a young girl. ‘What are they shouting?’ she asked her father. ‘Go back home’ said her father. ‘But I am home’ she replied.
It was interesting to hear what Nigel Farage said about it all, on his out-and-about programme last night, between 19:00 & 20:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDWB3_45yPg The gist of it being that Hussy was the ‘victim’, as it were. He was probably right by saying that this wouldn’t make the press anywhere else!
2 thoughts come to mind:
1 If she really were “racist”, she wouldn’t even have spoken to her in the first place.
2 Being from Liverpool, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked if I have Irish ancestry – is this any different?
Yes, what she said was thick-eared, heavy-handed and inappropriate but to say it was “racist” is, to my mind, stretching the definition.
This post suggests the trigger for the questions might have been the mismatch between the accent (West Indian) and the name (African): https://www.unz.com/isteve/ngozi-fulani-is-actually-marlene-headley/
“Switzerland, facing an unprecedented power shortage, contemplates a partial ban on the use of electric vehicles”
It’s ironic that Switzerland imports a lot from Germany & France these days. It’s long been using hydro electric generation, and of course the difficulties outside the border encouraged it’s development, along with electric traction on the railways.
They could turn CERN off, that would save a bit of electric (1.2 terrawatts in 2012, probably a lot more now).
Today’s onshore wind farm story: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/12/onshore-wind-farm-ban-could-have-added-800m-to-household-bills/
Remember the original SARS virus? Neither do I, other than some vague memory of it causing panic then it seemed to disappear.
Why did that one vanish but this new one seems to be hanging around? What was different this time around?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/01/the-real-reason-behind-chinas-zero-covid-policy/
The brilliant Kit Knightly at Off-G providing a superb explanation of China’s role in the Scamdemic.
Truly insightful piece – thanks for posting…
This is the effect of suppressing and censoring information:
Before, we could assume most information was closer to false and pick out what we deemed to be closer to true for further debate. This worked well because those amplifying closer to false information were lost in the sea of all the other assumed closer to false information.
Now, we are to assume most information to be closer to true (because it’s been filtered) and pick out what we deem to be closer to false and remove it. Those amplifying closer to false information now have more status because most information that we see has to be assumed to be closer to true until it is verified and/or removed.
The more information is removed the more we must assume the information we see is closer to true, even if it isn’t.
Posted in error.
Another cause of death unknown:-
https://www.nme.com/news/tv/orange-is-the-new-black-actor-brad-william-henke-dies-aged-56-3359683
It was possible he was injected given he had worked on a NBCUniversal production: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
https://screenrant.com/law-order-svu-warren-leight-unvaccinated-actors-response/
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/01/the-real-reason-behind-chinas-zero-covid-policy/
CONCLUSION
To sum up, China’s “zero covid” approach forms a vital piece of the overall pandemic narrative, working in conjunction with Western governments as a deliberately stark contrast:
-It promotes the idea that vaccines work and helped prevent further lockdowns here.
-It shines a flattering light on Western governments, who appear less draconian by comparison.
-It serves as an argument for the effectiveness of lockdowns and other authoritarian measures.
Perhaps most importantly, the supposed difference works to corral and control public debate.
Traditionally leftwing critics of Western capitalism are forced to defend vaccines and lockdowns by their ideological loyalty to China.
Conversely, right-wingers have China’s “socialist” practices to point their fingers at, whilst praising Western capitalist pharmaceutical innovation for saving us from the need for tighter lockdowns.
Each side is controlled by their ideology, not realising their loyalties are being used to position them inside the permissible spectrum of opinion.
I posted a link to this excellent Kit Knightly article this morning.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/12/doug-casey/global-government-vs-the-people/
I’ll go so far as to say that Central Bank Digital Currencies and digital “health passports” are the most dangerous threats to the freedom and independence of the average human being in modern history—perhaps in world history. They will control where you can go, what you can do, and what you can own. They’re both very big deals, and they’ll be daily facts of life before 2023 is over. It’s very disturbing that we don’t hear either of them discussed anywhere. They should be taken with the utmost seriousness and stopped.