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- “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.
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- “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.
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I had never heard of handball until seeing this article.
Me neither but I’m liking the players. A lot.
Brilliant news.
Ww need the IHF to dig their feet in and for the players to form a single, defiant block and give the IHF authorities a monumental sex and travel response.
This has the potential to be a real goody. A sporting war. Loads of publicity and lots of bad press for the poison pushers, statistics all over the place, tragic stories. Billy and Klaus flapping. Bourla nowhere to be seen. Fishy in his cave. Sage in a bunker somewhere. Michie on a fact- finding mission in Antartica and Raine AWOL.
Marvellous.
Come on you lot.
Oh I fervently hope so.
In my own circle of musicians we dodged a bullet when a minority of Karens on a management committee tried to make vaccination a requirement of performing a symphony concert. They failed to impose the requirement, but then the venue owners imposed their own restrictions which scuppered the concert at the last moment. It’s chaos. We can’t be sure that some unknown authoritarian Karen isn’t going to veto our next attempt. Legal action looks prohibitively expensive, presumably it would be ECHR Right of Assembly Case versus Article 13 lawfare.
That’s upsetting to hear.
All the best
Michie the Bichie in the snow ! Frostbite would be too kind ! Mind you her hatchet face would probably melt the thickest ice
Nice one Freddy
The person who runs the IHF needs to be named and publicly shamed for the petty tyrant that he is.
Not yet. We want a proper set to, something that even The Times cannot ignore.
Come on lads. Get in to them!
Being a personal fiefdom, The Times can ignore whatever it wants!
I’ve looked him up. His name is Hassan Moustafa.
He’s been the president of the federation since 2000. So he’s been running the sport for 22 years, being reelected 6 times, the last 3 unopposed.
I bet he runs it like a personal fiefdom. That’s how most of these international federations operate, accountable to no one but themselves.
The Sep Blatter of Handball then !
You beat me to it Freddy.
Since when does the International Handball Federation, a perfectly private organization, have the authority to prescribe mandatory medical procedures for people attending or playing handball matches?
NB: The obvious answer is It doesn’t.
Governments have signalled over the last three years that they are quite happy for private companies and NGOs to do as they like in this regard and essentially do their dirty promotion and enforcement work for them.
And these international sports federations are completely unaccountable to anyone but themselves. Not unlike the WHO or UN. They have these pseudo democratic processes that elevate a delegate from each country to a global council which then sets rules for the entire world. And because it’s “democratic” then everyone has to follow their rules.
The moment you open your eyes, it’s impossible not to see the world as just a series of cartels. The pharma cartel, the media cartel, the energy cartel, all the sports cartels, the tech cartels, the banking cartel… etc….
The thing is the IHF really doesn’t have this authority, no more than they can randomly arrest people on premises they happened to rent. It’s neither a sovereign government enforcing some laws on its own territory nor an organization created by sovereign governments which have chosen to delegate certain powers to it. The people behind this may have the chutzpah to try it nevertheless, on the grounds that bullying oftentimes works, but bullying is all they have to support their stance.
They can keep the players out of the tournament which belongs to them, unless there are laws explicitly prohibiting that sort of discrimination.
I don’t know what the laws in Sweden and Poland say in this regard.
Of course, the players can get together and decide to boycott. At this point, they’re insane if they don’t.
After Damar Hamlin, I find it hard to imagine there is any athlete of any note who is not concerned about the vaxxes and certainly don’t want any / any more at this point in time. It only stops when we make it stop.
I don’t think your theory that the IHF is a sovereign government which has automatic exterritoriality in any place it may rent somewhere and is thus not subject to the laws of the countries its operating in and authorized to make up its own laws as it sees fit and enforce them violently is correct. But please feel free to prove me wrong by coming up with something which shows that private associations of businesspeople do actually have these rights in Sweden and Poland.
Re private companies setting mandates…
The situation is really bad in Australia where it’s likely millions have been impacted by jab mandates set by state governments, businesses, sports clubs etc.
In regard to companies, I’m challenging the jab mandate set by Westpac Bank for its employees, a jab mandate which is still in place.
See my email to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Westpac Group: Westpac and Covid jab mandates – why were employees denied a voluntary decision on this medical intervention? 4 January 2023.
Well maybe, but where were they when people including children were being forced, coerced and gaslighted into being injected and generally vilified if they weren’t.
Most sports governing bodies are inept, corrupt because they are monopolies. Competition is the only thing that can keep them on their toes. There is little to prevent a group of professionals setting up a more democratic leaner and meaner organisation and ensure by a comprehensive constitution that the tendency to corruption and being captured by bad actors is democratically blocked. Two competing governing bodies in a region or country tend to keep each other a bit more efficient and honest. Perhaps Iceland should make a start.
Now the “Long march through the institutions’ is complete the march through sporting associations seems well underway as the England squad demonstrated in Quatar.