- “Collapsing Conspiracy Cover-Ups?” – Ron Unz writes about the dizzying number of conspiracy theories that have suddenly become more plausible in 2022 in the Unz Review.
- “Funny: U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked (1989 article)” – Igor Chudov writes about a series of climate change predictions made by the U.N. in 1989, including that ocean levels would rise by three feet and the Earth’s temperature would rise by between one and seven degrees in the next 30 years.
- “Rishi Sunak told care system at risk of collapse if workers not paid as much as nurses” – Former First Secretary of State Damian Green has warned that the care sector will face a mass exodus of workers if their pay isn’t increased.
- “Energy firms hoard £2 billion of customers’ cash” – Direct debit payments rise even when bill-payers are thousands of pounds in credit, an investigation by the Telegraph shows.
- “China Had Biological Weapons Ambitions Long Before Pandemic: House Intelligence Committee Member” – China mad its biological weapons ambitions clear long before the outbreak of COVID-19, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Lightyear, Moonfall and beyond: the biggest box office flops of 2022” – Top Gun absolutely flew in 2022. But the rest of Hollywood dropped woke bombs left, right and centre, according to the Telegraph.
- “Piers Morgan’s Twitter account posts racist abuse after being hacked” – Piers Morgan’s account looks like it was hacked on Boxing day, given that it shared posts containing false information, racial slurs and abusive messages directed at the late Queen and Ed Sheeran. Either that, or the TalkTV host was very, very drunk.
- “Do Covid mRNA vaccines damage our ability to control the coronavirus after a booster shot?” – A disturbing new paper offers evidence that they do, according to Alex Berenson, and could help explain the unending Omicron waves in mRNA countries.
- “Ex-Durham donor cuts off university cash to fund fight for free speech” – Mark Hillery, who gave more than £7 million to his alma mater, will focus his giving on causes protecting scholars from getting cancelled, including the Free Speech Union, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ministers’ ‘pitiful attempt’ to recoup money wasted on fraudulent PPE” – Government ministers have recovered just £18 million of the hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money believed to have been wasted on potentially fraudulent PPE contracts, it has emerged, according to the Mail.
- “People won’t be able to think bad thoughts” – Listen to me on GB News warning about the threats to free speech in 2023.
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An FOI has revealed that no analysis of the Pfizer clinical jab trial data was carried out by MHRA who gave it a conditional use authorisation. That is shocking.
“In other words, the MHRA (the UK drug regulator that is tasked with ensuring safety of new drugs) failed to analyze the Pfizer data itself.
Furthermore they claimed to have given this job to Public Health England who stated categorically that they had no access to the data, let alone conducted data validation or analysis.
The full document relating to the Public Health England FOI is available here (https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/4.-PHE_FOI.pdf).
The bottom line is that this is the second of the big four drug regulators (MHRA, TGA, EMA, FDA) who have never inspected nor assessed the validity of Pfizer’s “miracle” data.
Which begs the question – who, outside of Pfizer, has verified and analyzed Pfizer’s trial data?
Why should the public take Pfizer’s word on the results of their own investigations, when tens of billions of dollars in profits are at stake?
What is the true role of medical regulators if their approach to “any marketing authorisation” is laying a trail outsourcing data validation to a body that never received, let alone… Read more »
The incomparable Awkward Git of the Lockdown Sceptics Reddit has uncovered much circularity of this nature as a result of his tireless efforts with FOIs and other requests for information and letters – every one pointing the finger at everyone else, round and round it goes.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/26/energy-firms-hoard-2bn-customers-cash/
Oh dear, does that mean all those people paying via debit debit are now unlicensed money lenders? Can they expect a knock on the door for undertaking illegal activities in this crazy world?
To be fair there’s an inherent difficulty in allowing people to pay the same amount every month for a product that’s wildly seasonal. Someone is going to end up in credit. I don’t know if they offer a pure pay as you go option, but they should. As long as you bear in mind your periodic payments will be higher in the winter, it’s clearly better for the consumer.
Some vaguely good news:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/defend-the-right-to-free-speech/
Update on Defend Free Speech and Assembly in the UK – Appeal to the High Court
Dear supporters
Earlier this year I launched this crowd fund (and another one on this site) to pay for an application for high court appeal and judicial review into two convictions I received for attending an early anti lockdown protest during the lockdown in 2020 in Hyde Park, London and for filming Gloucester hospital in December 2020; where Debbie was charged and convicted of a public order offence.
The great news is that after a year of hard work and commitment from my legal team and initially being refused an application for judicial review, I attended a hearing at the High Court of Appeal in London on December 1st 2022 and I have now been granted a judicial review. The judicial review will be to look at how the law was applied to my charge and conviction for attending a protest and the use of the Corona Virus regulations. We are still waiting for a date for this judicial review in the High Court of Appeal and as soon as I get it, I will share it with you.
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