- “Rishi Sunak prepares sweeping tax rises for years to come” – The Mail reports that Rishi Sunak is preparing sweeping tax rises for years to come for every household in the country, as the PM and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt agree to fill ‘eye-watering’ £50 billion black hole created by the lockdowns and energy price cap.
- “Covid inquiry demands to see Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages” – Baroness Heather Hallett will also inquire into the effectiveness of mandatory lockdowns in controlling the spread of coronavirus, according to the Telegraph. But will she swallow Ferguson’s modelling fairytales whole?
- “Pandemic accountability” – We need accountability, not amnesty – we need to learn from our mistakes, so we don’t make them again, says Dr. Vinay Prasad as he lists 18 solutions.
- “Xi Jinping is bringing China to the brink of collapse” – In a declaration of war against the elites, he has recklessly abandoned the guardrails that have kept the peace inside the Communist Party, argues Gordon Chang in the Telegraph.
- “Wuhan lab reports suggest major incident just before Covid pandemic” – Toy Reid, an expert in ‘official speak’ used by Chinese bureaucrats in their missives, believes lab reports sent from Wuhan to Beijing just before Covid struck reveal an unfolding crisis at the institute, reports the Mail.
- “Shanghai Disneyland locks down over Covid and bars guests from leaving” – All visitors in the park at the time of the announcement were ordered to stay inside until they could provide a negative test for the virus, reports the Mail.
- “Antivaxers applaud Tory MP Christopher Chope as he questions safety of Covid vaccines” – The Times with a nasty little smear piece, showing itself still incapable of reporting fairly on concerns about vaccine safety.
- “Long history of China’s CCP and Biowarfare” – Dr. Robert Malone publishes a guest essay by Clare M. Lopez on the unhappy history of China’s fixation with biological warfare.
- “A Wellesley Student Speaks Out” – “The message from Wellesley could not be more clear,” writes a student from the college on Brownstone. “The education of students here is contingent on our willingness to take a medical treatment that did not exist when I enrolled here. There is no consent, only coercion.”
- “International Conference on Pandemic/Health Management Medical and Scientific Conference” – Jessica Rose puts up her presentation from the Portugal conference this week.
- ““This House Has Had Enough of Experts”” – Laura Dodsworth publishes a transcript of her speech in defence of the motion at the Cambridge Union debate.
- “Another new study – yes, a second one – says the ‘Omicron-specific’ mRNA Covid boosters are worthless” – For the second time in a week, top scientists have reported that ‘Omicron specific’ Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick, says Alex Berenson.
- “Chickens in lockdown as ‘largest ever’ bird flu outbreak rages” – An avian flu with reported IFR of 90% has led to a requirement for all captive birds to be kept inside amid “rapid escalation” of the virus, the Telegraph reports.
- “Covid review? No, just a shameful cop-out” – Paul Collits in TCW Defending Freedom writes that the Australian Covid review is “of, by and for the ruling class” and so “with the hard questions kept off the table the evil works perpetrated in the name of Covid safety in Australia go unpunished”.
- “The Book We Need and Only Justin Hart Could Write” – Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone praises Justin Hart’s new pandemic book Gone Viral, saying he is one of the “few intellectuals who was correct about the whole hullabaloo from the very beginning”.
- “Students suffering ‘grief’ over climate change offered support sessions” – The University of East Anglia says living close to the eroding Norfolk coast can be hard, as it employs “mindfulness techniques for resilience”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Nature Geoscience: ‘Eastern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Has Grown Over Last 20 Years’” – CO2-warming is not what is driving the ice activity on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, notes Pierre Gosselin in WUWT.
- “Just Stop Oil hits four targets on final day of month of mayhem” – A passerby defied calls to not “directly intervene” with Just Stop Oil eco-zealots as a man tackled a paint-wielding protester and sprayed him orange this morning, the Mail reports.
- “Ukraine war: Cost-of-living crisis could erode public support for sanctions against Russia” – An exclusive poll for Sky News found that 32% would oppose sanctions if they caused energy bills to rise further.
- “‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk becomes the sole director of Twitter” – Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board of directors, making him the sole director of the company, as he plans to “fire a quarter of the workforce”, according to the Mail.
- “Does Elon Musk have the stomach for this fight?” – He could be the madman who makes the internet less mad, suggests Gareth Roberts in the Spectator. But is he prepared for the scale of the pushback?
- “A Law School Lacked and Lost” – For years, the University of San Diego’s law school set the standard for intellectual excellence and diversity, but time and wokery have not been kind, says James Allan in Law & Liberty.
- “NHS diversity drive cost taxpayers almost three-quarters-of-a-million-pounds in October alone” – 16 roles advertised at Trusts, all of which have a focus on equality, inclusion and well-being, have a total combined salary of £713, 328, reports the Telegraph.
- “Children as young as nine prescribed puberty blockers at Sturgeon-backed gender clinic” – The Telegraph reports that Sandyford is accused of setting young patients off on “a medical pathway”, after an NHS report into referrals for drug treatment.
- “America’s parents are revolting” – “They are fed up with schools indoctrinating their children,” says Joanna Williams in Spiked, “and now they’re fighting back.”
- “Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures 2022 – Nigel Biggar, Ali Ansari and Douglas Murray” – Watch the lecture on “Deconstructing Decolonisation” by Professor Nigel Biggar, held at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on October 26th 2022.
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The Journal of the American Heart Association has published two articles in Oct looking at the vax-induced heart damage and how to treat them. Myocarditis, pericarditis and myopercarditis are still being passed off as “rare”, but the author of this piece has conveniently included screen shots of two searches from VAERS which prove otherwise. One being from the Covid jabs since roll-out and the other from 30+ years of all vaccines combined.
So for products that have been used <2 years vs many vaccines used for 30> years the comparison in deaths, permanent disability, hospitalization etc is staggering ( 8,411% increase in deaths! ) and in no way can be classed as “rare”. That word applies to the 30 years of all other vaccines combined, certainly not these gene therapies.
This might be a good article to show anyone considering having further jabs. I wonder what the UK Yellow Card system looks like. And consider VAERS has been shown to only report on 1% of all adverse events. As the author rightly states, this heart damage is not rare it’s epidemic.
https://medicalkidnap.com/2022/10/30/medical-system-struggles-with-how-to-treat-heart-disease-caused-by-covid-vaccines/
That is an amazing read. Unfortunately there are still people out there who will tell you that there is always collateral damage with vaccines and that it’s just bad luck. Most have chosen their beliefs and are sticking to them.
The problem with that argument being that the authorities would always have taken meds and vaccines off the market once they cross a threshold of harms attributed to them, but this long-standing rule seems to have gone out of the window and doesn’t apply with these novel things. Profit ( as well as the wider, more sinister agenda ) is being put before safety.
The other point also is lack of informed consent as well as the huge and elaborate psychological manipulation project which has gone into getting a jab in every arm. Something else which is unprecedented when compared to all previous meds and proper vaccines.
The whole point in having these adverse reporting systems is so that safety signals can be highlighted and acted upon. Well the former is certainly happening but the latter is totally absent.
The lack of informed consent is unbelievable. I’ve asked people how they gave their consent – did they sign a piece of paper or just say yes or whatever? To a person – including my twice jabbed husband – they looked at me as if I was mad. By turning up like good citizens they gave their consent it appears.
I’ve also tried to talk about the lack of proper testing of the vaccines and been blanked as well. At the moment, I no longer care and have stopped trying to get any sense out of people. The local booster session is no longer a topic of conversation which is excellent as far as I’m concerned.
Sadly I have to agree with you. Those people who truly believe just won’t change their minds….and I am now at the stage of just letting them get on with it…they can play Russian Roulette forever as far as I’m concerned…
I was recently talking to someone who has been ill after all three vaccines but was going for his booster…when I politely suggested he was mental, he said that he had read that if you were ill afterwards it meant the vaccines were working!? I told him it was nonsense, but he will go ahead…and frankly if you Google it..there are lots of ’experts’ saying exactly that!!?
On the same evening I found out that an elderly acquaintance who has very bad arthritis in one shoulder had asked to have both his flu and Covid in the same arm, and was duly obliged!!?
I always give them some facts and figures..it’s all we can do…
The flu and Covid jabs at the same time is amazing. i know quite a few people who got that done and variations in which arm they got them in was a mildly amusing diversion. The (not) surprising thing was the number of people who got their first flu jab ever having ignored it for years. The attitude seemed to be ‘well, why not?” Being unwell afterwards is almost taken for granted!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dear-friends-sorry-announce-genocide/5782022
An excellent read ( with a gazillion hyperlinks ) looking at the scamdemic with the benefit of hindsight, which throws up many, many questions as well as much evidence that we’ve all been deceived since day 1.
“After a deeper dive into the Covid Hall of Mirrors one wonders if even a single strand of the story withstands scrutiny. Three years on and the wreckage from the fusillade of Covid policies continue to pile up. With every passing day more holes appear in the official narrative and more admissions come to light as officials scurry to avoid accountability.
As the dust settles in the aftermath of the Covid carnage we are left asking one final question:
“Was the entirety of the Covid Story a lie?”
https://off-guardian.org/2022/10/28/covid-19-a-universe-of-questions-in-a-time-of-universal-deceit/
Antivaxers applaud Tory MP Christopher Chope as he questions safety of Covid vaccines”
It was indeed a nasty article. The comments below it show how entrenched the ignorance about the vaccines and their effects is in the general population. It is appalling to think that these people have only been reading MSM information for the past (almost) three years and genuinely believe what they are told. There is really nothing that can be done to enlighten them, it seems. The Times is an appalling paper these days.
Can we expect any better from the lowbrow, knuckle dragging likes of the Times? Mainstream media are gone now. It’s just a bunch of so-called journalists trying to keep their jobs by not upsetting anyone, least of all their paymasters. They won’t be upsetting any applecarts when they’ve got expensive mortgages to pay and homes to heat and fancy kitchens to install. No, no, no. They’re really just copywriters, writing copy approved by their editors and on up the line. If ‘antivaxxer’ stories sells newspapers then so be it they’re told. Lump all the pain, injury, death, dissent, truth and evidence together and give it a neat little label that they can metaphorically put in the stocks and throw rotten eggs at. Medieval thinking for feudal times.
I agree with you…the newspapers have become the facilitators and echo chambers for vile people to say things that are often frankly disgusting.
Why anyone would want to show their intolerance and ignorance on so many subjects is baffling…
There were one or two journalists that I read during lockdown in MSM who expressed contrarian opinions but they would appear to be no longer writing which isn’t the slightest bit surprising.
Yes, surprise, surprise, not!
“Rishi Sunak prepares sweeping tax rises for years to come”
This ‘government’ needs to remove its tunnel vision spectacles focussed purely on taxing the citizenry as the prime means of recovering from the COVID debacle and balancing the books.
It is now more that abundantly clear that the response to SARS-CoV-2 / COVID was based on a MA$$IVE FRAUD pushed by the vaccine industry and its backers onto gullible politicians and administrators who, in turn, pushed it on the citizenry. I.e. Entirely contrary to the heavily advertised/propagandised claims, the COVID “vaccines” do not prevent infection, do not prevent transmission, do not prevent hospitalisation and do not prevent serious disease and death. And the recent court-ordered release of Pfizer internal clinical trials documentation (that they sought to hide from the public for some 70 years) proves that Pfizer was certainly aware of these ‘inadequacies’ when they rolled out their ‘miracle’ cure. Doubtless, Moderna, J & J and AstraZeneca were also fully aware that their experimental “vaccines” would not prevent infection, transmission, etc.
The government should, I suggest, urgently examine suing the COVID vaccine industry, and its backers, demanding exemplary, punitive, compensatory damages.
The British people still live in an unacknowledged and largely unseen feudal system whereby they bail out the mistakes of the leaders and the rulers time and time again. We are among the most taxed people in the world. Blink and it’s taxed. Look at the list of taxes that we are subject to. The government don’t have money of their own – they have OUR money. Sunak spent our money paying people to stay at home – billions and billions of it, much of it claimed fraudulently. His government also spent billions on Track and Trace and buying useless masks that now sit in shipping containers. They tell us there is no magic money tree but they’ve got one: it’s called ‘us’. The unelected Sunak, a man who we will remind as often as possible that he has NO mandate from us, is part of the problem of course. He stands in a long line of robber barons going all the way back to William the Bastard. Look at this list, it makes me weep:
[Forwarded from Steve Gamble – The Search For Truth]
“If I give you £1 billion and you stand on a street corner handing out £1 per second, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, you would still not have handed out £1 billion after 31 years!
Now read on. This is true and rather hard to really understand.
The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.
1. A billion seconds ago, it was 1991.
2. A billion minutes ago, they claim Jesus was alive.
3. A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
4. A billion days ago, no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
5. A billion Dollars ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our present government is spending it.
We are charged:
· Stamp Duty
· Tobacco Tax
· Corporate Income Tax
· Income Tax
· Council Tax
· Unemployment Tax
· Fishing License Tax
· Petrol/Diesel Tax
· Inheritance Tax (tax on top of tax)
· Alcohol Tax
· G.S.T.
· Property Tax
· Purchase Property Tax
· Tax on Title Searches
· Tax on Building Inspections
· Tax on supplements
· Taxes on various food items
· Taxes on Dining out
· Tax on all utilities – Phone, hydro, water, waste disposal
· Service charge taxes
· Social Security Tax
· Vehicle License / Registration Tax
· Vehicle Sales Tax
· Workers Compensation Tax
· And now Carbon Tax
AND I’m sure you can think of more……
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 60 years ago, and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt.
We had the largest middle class in the world. A criminal’s life was uncomfortable. What on earth happened?
I hope this goes around the UK.
#GovernmentCorruption”
I am slightly reminded of the Monty Python sketch…Spam, Spam, Spam, Eggs and Spam. Except now it’s Tax, Tax, Tax, No Eggs, No Sausage, Tax, Tax and Tax. Is there anything without ‘tax’? No, you can’t have anything unless it’s tax. When I get to the other side, no doubt there’ll be a sign taxing me for being dead. I’m not sure what the answer is but maybe pushing back and withholding tax should be an option.
And don’t forget that we actually pay tax on tax payment for some of them – notably VAT on top of excise duty (allegedly ‘cos paying duty adds value), e.g. on fuel, and alcohol. Not only that, inflation automatically increases revenue for the treasury.
“The government should, I suggest, urgently examine suing the COVID vaccine industry, and its backers, demanding exemplary, punitive, compensatory damages.”
I believe the “vaccine” pushers all got immunity from every government they sold to. It was a condition of doing business.
The indemnities, I believe, do not apply in the event of fraud.
Interesting. Thanks. There certainly has been fraud.
There are some cases being filed regarding fraud around the world. They are few but are the best current hope of blowing up the scam.
Fraud is the only way to get at the pharma shills.
That’s encouraging. There’s a long way to go but I am more positive than I have been since the start of this. The narrative seems to be unravelling faster than I expected.
Senator Paul Rand has been doing some sterling work in the USA re the CDC
https://libertyairwaves.com/the-cdc-is-in-a-panic-after-rand-paul-revealed-their-corruption/
That man is a bloody superstar
Let’s not forget the few MEPs going after Ursula Von der Leyen.
Sorry ebygum, I’ve just noticed you hadn’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2rUNiM4y0
Mislav Kolakusic and his fellow MEP’s will not let this go…thank goodness someone is bothered…..
“Chickens in lockdown as ‘largest ever’ bird flu outbreak rages” – you couldn’t make it up, could you? Look at the brave, uncomplaining chickens taking a bullet for the team and willingly getting locked up…I mean locked down of course. It’s interesting looking at the language used in these scare pieces: raging avian flu outbreak; rife infection and vast culls, catastrophic” outbreak among feral populations; farmers may not bother farming Christmas poultry next year as the risk of financial ruin is too high…and on and on. Get your Christmas locusts now before stocks run out – oh wait…stocks will never run out ‘cos there’s bleedin’ gazillions of them! You can see the way this is going. Chicken will become a thing of the past due to recurring avian flu so that’s egg banjos out of the window too and forget yer fancy white omlettes. Soon, chicken will be a memory. Then there’s that pesky feral bird population to deal with, leading to Sparrows 2.0 – to borrow a programme of eradication from the helpful CCP – but in this case, they’ll just target all birds around farms. Next up…mmm? All those cattle and sheep? – Foot and Mouth, natch – then the pigs of course, well, we have a nice range of swine flu variants this winter. Seems that this is just perfectly normal though, wiping out all our animal stocks. It won’t be long before poachers are back on big country estates trying to get a rabbit for the pot and risking serious jail time for trespassing, maybe even deportation to Rwanda. Remind me what century we are living in? Should I be investing in a jerkin, doublet and hose? Getting a nice pudding bowl haircut too?
The origins of this viral outbreak surely warrants some investigation. Is it, for example, the result of laboratory tinkering, or worse? Why do I say this? As long ago as 2013 The Independent ran an article headed “‘Appalling irresponsibility’: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratory”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/appalling-irresponsibility-senior-scientists-attack-chinese-researchers-for-creating-new-strains-of-influenza-virus-in-veterinary-laboratory-8601658.html
The article addressed work carried out at China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute. Doubtless, such activities are carried on at biolabs in many countries, including the UK.
Isn’t it about time that the 47-year-old International Bioweapons Treaty was amended to internationally outlaw such tinkering with lethal viruses – aka ‘Gain of Function’? Now that would be a ‘great reset’ worth having.
It certainly does Chris but investigation by who? And how? And in what timeframe? I don’t think anything is as straightforward as it once was. Maybe in times past, we could have expected some better oversight and scrutiny, some deeper probing and thorough investigation but look around you. There is no one. Even the origins of Covid are to most people still vague and hidden. One day it’s a lab leak then the wet market proposition comes back. From what I’ve gleaned, there is a campaign against farming and livestock farming more specifically. It’s odd, don’t you think, that the most virulent and catastrophic strain of bird flu just so happens to be upon us now? Now, it’s good not to be jumping to conclusions too quickly but we just have to join up the dots. What would be of interest to me is to see if the office of the Chief Veterinary Officer is compromised in some way with, say, a vaccine manufacturer.
Yes..we are ‘beset on all sides’…..I recently had a conversation with someone who I always buy Christmas cards from for the RNLI..I told her as the RNLI was facilitating the illegal mass immigration into the country I wouldn’t be giving them any more money..
I also won’t be giving to the RSPCA either in the future…as I don’t know if people are aware that they are sending representatives to Cop27, with the intention of asking for restrictions on meat and dairy..according to them we eat too much!!? And animals fart too much!!
https://www.rspca.org.uk/-/news-rspca-welcomes-methane-emissions-pledge-but-calls-for-action-on-cutting-animal-products
I am looking at pretty much everything I do/buy/watch or support now, in a way I have never done before….
Just as a by the way…In relation to China..we all know how propagandised our MSM is, so I always take stories about China with a pinch of salt to a certain extent…while trying to keep an open mind….
In February this year the USA allocated $500 million specifically to turn out China negative news!
This bill was part of the China-centered America COMPETES Act that just got passed by the US House of Representatives earlier that month. A majority of the half-billion-dollar fund will go to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), a state-run media service that oversees Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe (RFE), and Radio Free Asia (RFA)…..”
It’s State-propaganda on steroids….and now we have the EU and UK also saying that China is the enemy……once they start going into lock-step, I start disbelieving a word they say…we have been here before!!
The mission of the RNLI is very clear – “To save lives at Sea”. The mission says nothing about ignoring some people in danger of drowning and not ignoring others. But if you think that not buying Christmas cards from the RNLI reduces the chances of the “illegal mass immigration” then I wish you well in your fantasy world.
The government is responsible for policing our seas and is not responsible for outsourcing illegal immigration to a charity because it is failing in a primary responsibility of government – protecting our borders.
I couldn’t agree with you more – and you are spot on with your comment re. the (WEF promoted) campaign against farming – an international campaign, no less. In the future, if the globalists have their way, it’ll be bug-burgers and maggot-burgers replacing beef-burgers.
The Danish Government’s destruction of their mink industry looks like just the beginning.
I didn’t know there were still large scale fur industries. I’m not fan of them to be honest. It’s the animal food industries – and they are industries – and their potential end that I would object to. Even though I don’t eat meat, I wouldn’t want to restrict the choices of others.
I don’t know enough about the industry to be for or against. I just know the industry was shut down on a pretext (COVID in this case).
Last time I bothered to look an organic chicken in the local Tesco was 19 quid, so its been off the menu for quite a while now. But take heart, Aspire foods has got it covered. As long as you haven’t got an allergy to chitin that is (1:5 people, apparently)…
https://aspirefg.com/technology.aspx
We should make insect welfare the next big thing!
£19 for a chicken??? Are you sure it wasn’t a turkey?!! A large chicken costs around £7 in the South West.
Yep – organic chicken! Bonkers.
Yep, definitely organic chicken (medium sized) and definitely 19 quid, had to do a triple take it was so eye watering. Friends have said the same. And in the South West too.
“Chickens in lockdown as ‘largest ever’ bird flu outbreak rages”
The origins of this viral outbreak surely warrants some investigation.
Is it, for example, the result of laboratory tinkering, or worse? Why do I say this? As long ago as 2013 The Independent ran an article headed “‘Appalling irresponsibility’: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratory”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/appalling-irresponsibility-senior-scientists-attack-chinese-researchers-for-creating-new-strains-of-influenza-virus-in-veterinary-laboratory-8601658.html
The article addressed work carried out at China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute. Doubtless, such activities are carried on at biolabs in many countries, including the UK.
Isn’t it about time that the 47-year-old International Bioweapons Treaty was amended to internationally outlaw such tinkering with lethal viruses – aka ‘Gain of Function’? Now that would be a ‘great reset’ worth having.
Interesting..
what does this mean?
https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/statementonpopulationoftheukbycountryofbirthandnationalityseries
On 2 November 2022, the first migration statistics from the Census 2021 for England and Wales will be published. This will be our best estimate of the population of England and Wales by country of birth and passports held.
Administrative data from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Migrant Worker Scan (MWS) linked to Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, recently used to weight the non-UK born population in the Annual Population Survey (APS), only provides information to June 2021 because of an underlying data issue with the MWS. Therefore, population growth for non-UK born and non-British nationals from the APS beyond June 2021will not represent real changes until the data issue with the MWS is fixed.
Therefore, the population of the UK by country of birth and nationality series using the APS will be discontinued.
Is the underlying ‘data issue’ that they haven’t now got a clue how many immigrants are here…and can’t know?…that millions of them don’t have passports, and millions of them don’t have jobs?….
…..and from now on they’ll just give us a guesstimate?
…more ‘official’ cover-up and obfuscation…..
Either that or they know very well how many there are but want to cover it up as it might alarm the natives.
I almost read that as Migrant Worker Scam!
The advertising seems to have completely disappeared from this site. I am curious as to why that is.
I have just received an e-mail from Thames Water telling me the drought and associated hosepipe ban continues. This must now be the wettest drought on record. This exceptional weather event proves beyond doubt the existence of anthropogenic climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoFYtQfhg2Q&list=WL&index=1 Worth a look, while it lasts. Neil Oliver on GBN for a few minutes on the ONS stats on the after effect of the “Lockdown”.