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by Nick Dixon
6 January 2023 12:45 AM

  • “Boris Johnson was secretly ‘nudged’ into wearing a Covid mask by Government scientists” – Professor David Halpern of SAGE claims he turned his subliminal powers of persuasion on the Prime Minister himself after it became apparent he was not leading by example, according to the Telegraph.
  • “What is known about the XBB.1.5 Covid variant and what’s behind the nickname ‘kraken’?” – Sky News fills us in on the origins of this absurd new nickname.
  • “Doctor gave fake exemption notes to thousands of people who didn’t want to wear masks” – A German practitioner was jailed after handing out medical exceptions to more than 4,000 people she had not examined during the pandemic, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Tracked, detained, vilified: How China throttled anti-Covid protests” – After widespread demonstrations, China relaxed its strict Covid controls. But on the protesters themselves, the Government unleashed a police state brimming with new surveillance technology, the Washington Post reports.
  • “Covid and the Church of England’s retreat” – Parishioners were ill-served by the Church’s pandemic response, writes Ben Phillips in the Critic.
  • “EU recommends pre-flight testing of passengers from China, wastewater testing in airports” – European Union Government officials recommended on Wednesday that passengers flying from China to the EU should have a negative COVID-19 test before they board, as Beijing plans to ease travel restrictions despite a wave of new Covid infections, reports Reuters.
  • “How to hide adverse events” – The FDA has finally conceded that the mRNA vaccinations increase the risk of pulmonary embolism, but it used a very odd methodology. Using the same methodology, other risks were dismissed in an unjustified way, writes the Health Advisory & Recovery Team.
  • “Wikipedia” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan find that some of Wikipedia’s entries border on defamation.
  • “Breathing Trouble” – New research shows the risks from prolonged use of face masks, according to Ugo Bardi and Harald Walach in Tablet.
  • “State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 4” – With help from the media, social media and police, people were frightened, shamed and coerced into submission and compliance, writes Ramesh Thakur for Brownstone Institute.
  • “Did National Security Imperatives Compromise COVID-19 Vaccine Safety?” – Why are governments around the world planning to make further significant investments in this rushed vaccine technology driven by the U.S. military, asks Phillip Altman for Brownstone Institute.
  • “Serially Wrong Paul Ehrlich Is Wrong, Again. We Are Not on The Brink of a Sixth Mass Extinction Event” – “As Ehrlich and friends continue to argue that the world is going to end unless we curb population growth, disavow fossil fuels, and reduce consumption of material goods, they could not be more misguided,” writes Chris Talgo in WUWT.
  • ”Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence”– A typically woke claim from the Washington Post.
  • “Rotherham and moral rot of identity politics” – A councillor who allegedly stifled discussion about grooming gangs has landed a plum NHS diversity role, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
  • “Ireland’s dangerous experiment in self-ID” – Women’s spaces and child safeguarding have been obliterated in the name of trans rights, says James Esses in Spiked.
  • ”You’re not pro-immigration“ – By what principle do immigration advocates justify admitting some of the people who want to migrate, while excluding the vast majority, asks Noah Carl in his latest Substack article.
  • “Does Jordan Peterson need to be re-educated?” – Winston Marshall in the Spectator with more on Jordan Peterson’s struggle session at the hands of the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
  • “Meet Jeff. For what it’s worth, Jeff looks like a nice guy. I’m even willing to bet that Jeff wakes up everyday and tries his best to do his job, despite his shortcomings and lack of credentials to do so.” – Texas Lindsay fact checks the fact checkers in a viral Twitter thread.

1. Meet Jeff.

For what it’s worth, Jeff looks like a nice guy. I’m even willing to bet that Jeff wakes up everyday and tries his best to do his job, despite his shortcomings and lack of credentials to do so. pic.twitter.com/nVsCz6apAb

— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-recommends-pre-flight-testing-passengers-china-wastewater-testing-airports-2023-01-04/

…and on another note if anyone has booked a holiday to Thailand, it is resurrecting the vax pass.

Happy holidays…

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2476069/proof-of-covid-jabs-for-all-visitors-revived

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

A very good new 45min documentary, The New Constitution, which consolidates much of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt’s research, translating it into plain English so that it’s easier to grasp, of how the US laws have gradually been changed over the years. This has been integral for the criminal elite’s plans and, amongst other things, the film explains how the US government is now totally impotent as the secretary of the HHS has full authority, therefore if he declares a ‘public health crisis’ they have no power to stop it. These new pseudo-laws now mean that the criminals can act with impunity as they have full protection. It’s a bit depressing actually as it means, if this is correct, DeSantis is destined to get nowhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9cmYNRgXXg&ab_channel=BookofOurs

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
2 years ago

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/05/irelands-dangerous-experiment-in-self-id/

When I looked at this article it seems to me that there is a failure to differentiate between sex and gender. I feel the two terms should be clearly defined and seen as very different and not inter-related, changing your gender should not be seen as changing your sex.

I Work in nature conservation and observing nature you can see that sex, breeding and reproduction are one of the top priorities and indeed springtime is approaching when nature bursts into a frenzy of reproduction and babies to ensure the continuation of the species.

To my mind your sex relates to how you fit into breeding and reproduction and can never be changed. Your gender relates to the style, appearance and mannerisms you present to the world. Previously the two have been closely linked but they are very different and in the light of current social concerns need to be seen as such. And so I have 2 questions;

1, Is there a word in the English language to describe an adult human being with a womb, ovaries and mammary glands, who is capable of conceiving, bearing and suckling a child?

2 Is there a word in the English language to describe an adult human being who has testes and is capable of providing sperm to facilitate the fertilisation of a human egg and the creation of a new human life?

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
2 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

It is no coincidence that activists have obfuscated (or flatly denied) the difference between biology and a lifestyle choice. The deliberate confusion is the key to understanding the whole issue (and it was just beginning when I studied social psychology in 1972-3).

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

I would imagine that Keir Starmer and his motley crew would have great difficulty in providing a truthful answer.

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MichaelM
MichaelM
2 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

Is the answer to 1 not “female adult” and to 2 “male adult”?

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
2 years ago
Reply to  MichaelM

It might have been in the past but now that it seems possible and to some extent and in some places legal to change your declared sex this no longer seems to be the case. Consequently we now have some adult human beings with testes and the ability to produce sperm declared and accepted as female. Consequently I no longer know what term to use when referring to people by virtue of their binary and unchangeable biological reproductive potential?

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MichaelM
MichaelM
2 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

Oh, I hadn’t realised that. I thought it was just the terms “woman” and “man” that had been changed to include the trans version of each. But what you are saying is that the terms “male” and “female” have also been similarly broadened.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
2 years ago

“Wikipedia”

Character assassination and de-credentialling on Wikipedia has been going on for years. For example, challengers of orthodox Neodarwinism, whether Intelligent Design proponents or secular critics like James Shapiro tend to find their PhDs and awards disappearing and “pseudoscience” labels being attached to them. The same is true of those questioning materialist science in other ways, like Rupert Sheldrake. It’s not a question of critical analysis of their views, but of poisoning the well against examining them dispassionately at all.

Those cases seem to have been orchestrated by cabals of anonymous “pro” editors broadly following the old New Atheist ideology, working full time so that if you corrected your biography in the morning, it would be doctored again by midday.

Well, now the Twitter files confirm that deep state operators have been at exactly the same game – at taxpayers’ expense – making Wikipedia, on issues where there is controversy, just another branch of state propaganda. Think about that not only when you look up Malone or Heneghan, but also when you’re after a quick biography of Vladimir Putin or an overview of the performance of wind turbines.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

The political left seem to have more energy and spare time than the right. They are all over Wikipedia – it’s pretty much a lost cause as far as political bias goes.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

I didn’t know anyone still used Wikipedia much, certainly not as a trusted source. Like you, I noted the defamations/character assassinations etc years ago which ramped up immediately the plandemic hit. The quickest defame I spotted was Dr Peter McCullough, practically within hours of his first address to Senate!

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Yes, I remember reading the piece on Richard Littlejohn about 15 years ago, because I wanted to check on something related to his latest book. The Wikipedia article bordered on being defamation. On the editor comments, someone pointed this out. In essence, the reply was that Littlejohn was such a scumbag that he deserved it and could cope with it. I never used Wikipedia ‘seriously’ again.

It’s very useful to check on where I am on my seven-season US Mission: Impossible TV series Blu-ray set, to make sure I get to the right episode quickly after a couple of weeks’ break. Even then, the information and write-ups for movies and TV shopw are often stolen from fan sites.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Wikipedia is useful to find episode synopses and transmission orders of old TV episodes. For anything important, it’s a load of extremist-manipulated tosh.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

More useful background from JC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26zP0YhEdmg Great Western Hosp records over the last few years on heart problems.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

The church of England has become a farce religion that doesn’t even believe in its own beliefs! Simple,Christians, just stop going until they learn to believe again. Preaching to an empty church is the future their looking at!

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago

Sorry to repeat this but I’ve only just read the story of the Finla Coffee shop this morning and was moved by their stand. They’ve lost the business but still have fines to pay. Fines! The response to their crowdfunder has been fantastic though and a true reflection of real community in action. So far, they’ve managed to get over £11,000 towards their £17,000 goal. If anyone missed it and is moved to donate, please visit the story above where the link to the crowdfunder is.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

It’s well worth a repeat.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

https://donorbox.org/supportfinlacoffee

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Well done tof.

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James Richardson
James Richardson
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Great news. I’ve just checked the crowdfunder website and they’ve surpassed their target. It currently stands at nearly £20,000 and rising. Many thanks to Toby for highlighting this family’s desperate plight.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago

This Jeff the Fact Checker story doesn’t surprise me. Anyone who rally knows their facts would probably not deign to lower themselves into the gutter for such verbal prostitution. It’s this mentality of sitting at desks and playing god that gets me. Less successful ‘journalists’ with zero scientific or medical qualifications with a brief to edit out anything that goes against the scriptures. Well done to Texas Lindsay for her Twitter thread in highlighting this.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

As I posted a few days ago, anybody who admits to referring to ‘fact checkers’ is really saying – “I’m fik.”

A more blatant way of exposing one’s stupidity would be difficult to find.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Morning all…I’ve been busy this week and haven’t been able to follow everything….so apologies if this has already been posted…

An interesting article from John Dees Almanac, looking at the appearance and disappearance of flu over the centuries….and how it spreads regardless of distance….and how this is not a new phenomena……this is part 1….
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https://jdee.substack.com/p/flip-flop-flu-part-1?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://expose-news.com/2023/01/05/pfizergate-disaster-excess-deaths-mortality-rates/

Imagine if a vaccine was administered to a large number of people in every age group. Then just a few months later there were millions of excess deaths. 
Whilst at the same time, official figures showed mortality rates per 100,000 population were significantly lower among the unvaccinated in every single group than they were in the vaccinated. 
This would be a significant cause for concern. Because this scenario would suggest that the vaccine was causing harm to those who received it, rather than protecting them from illness or death.
It would in fact be a catastrophic event that would require a thorough investigation and response.

An excellent ‘roundup’ article of where we are…

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Perhaps consider sending this to Prof Heneghen.🙄🤯

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/05/we-lost-our-cafe-and-got-fined-42000-because-we-refused-to-comply-with-covid-restrictions-can-you-help/

Another bump for this article. They deserve our support. I can’t imagine what they have and are still going through.

Brave, decent people.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://expose-news.com/2023/01/04/bill-gates-gives-ukaid-tens-of-millions/

Very interesting but deeply alarming. Billy is developing the:

International Barcode of Life (IBOL)

To complete this project he will genetically modify every plant and animal on the planet and once that is achieved he OWNS every plant and animal on the planet.

Is their an element of genetic modification in some of the clot shots?

I believe the shots have not yet been fully identified. Maybe the shots are a mixture of “varieties.” Some are maim and kill and others will have behavioural implications not yet manifested.

We really have not yet fully grasped the cess pit that is the mind of Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-05-food-company-france-reduces-production-80-percent.html

More worrying developments on the food front and the culprit is the cost of energy.

As predicted a manufactured food crisis.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-05-wef-eliminate-care-ownership-walk-share-happy.html

This explains how car ownership is to be reduced and ultimately eliminated.

Those lovely people at the WEF.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

Another definition of “Safety”? https://www.gbnews.uk/news/police-chief-claims-london-is-fantastically-safe-despite-885-murders-in-last-seven-years/419060 Perhaps Rowley is in the same club as those that claim C-19 jabs to be safe. You can do the sums, but if a murder rate of about 0,01% is tolerable, it looks like being in the same range!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/05/how-global-strikes-play-right-into-the-great-resets-hands/

Kit Knightly at Off-G warning as I have been doing repeatedly that striking unions are a threat to us all and not for the usual reasons.

Reset?

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

“You’ll have nothing and be happy 😊”
Cluse Adolf hitler swchwb will be the first to give up ALL his worldly goods to prove his total belief in his own statement?

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