- “The real reason you have an everlasting cold” – It’s all immunity debt, according to virologist Dr. Chris Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Long Covid rates could be slashed in half if people ate healthy, slept” – Long Covid symptoms can be blunted by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including by exercising regularly, sleeping enough and maintaining a healthy weight, according to Harvard researchers, as reported in the Mail.
- “New York’s kid-vaccination collapse is a grim result of ‘expert’ Covid misinfo” – Chalk up yet another deadly disaster to the authoritarian bungling of public health ‘experts’, says the New York Post in a leading article.
- “How the Bureaucracy Wrecks International Travel” – Gwendolyn Kull in Brownstone looks at the byzantine barriers to ending U.S. travel restrictions.
- “Lead author of the Cochrane mask review on the total absence of evidence for the efficacy of masking, and Cochrane’s early and apparently deliberate interference in the publication of these results” – Yet again, ‘the Science’ follows politics, writes Eugyppius.
- “Fewer than 100 Brits have died from Covid vaccines” – The Mail with a fanciful report that mistakes the number of mentions of the vaccines on death certificates for the actual number of lives shortened by the jabs.
- “Purr review: Wesselink study on Covid vaccine effects on fertility” – El Gato Malo with a fact check of the fact checkers.
- “Mark Steyn quits GB News” – TCW with unhappy tidings.
- “It’s what Big Brother Watch doesn’t tell us that counts” – James Delingpole in TCW says the BBW report is a limited hangout and wonder if Toby is starting to ‘get it’ yet.
- “Startling Evidence Suggests BioNTech and Pfizer Falsified Key Data” – Sonia Elijah reports on ‘blotgate’ for TrialSite News.
- “Thanks to everyone who joined us for our two-part Twitter Space on the Origins of the Covid Narrative” – Listen to the recording of Sunday’s online PANDA event here.
- “Disney cuts Simpsons episode in Hong Kong over reference to forced labour camps in China” – Disney has cut an episode of The Simpsons that refers to “forced labour camps” in China from its streaming service in Hong Kong, the Telegraph reports.
- “Did Liz Truss really cause the bond market rout?” – The LDI crisis was bubbling long before the mini budget, but no one took any action, says Jon Moynihan in CapX.
- “BBC sorry for poor effort to protect J.K. Rowling from ‘baseless’ smears” – The BBC has apologised for its “poor effort” to resist “baseless accusations” of transphobia against J.K. Rowling on BBC Radio 4, reports the Express.
- “Free speech law ‘must let cancelled academics sue woke universities’” – Education Minister Claire Coutinho fights back against Lords trying to scrap the tort that allows those “wrongly infringed” to seek compensation, the Telegraph reports.
- “Nicola Sturgeon’s gender ‘nonsense’ has set Scottish independence back years, says Alex Salmond” – The former First Minister accuses his successor of adopting “daft ideology imported from elsewhere” and hits out at the “absurd” policy, according to the Telegraph.
- “Should it be illegal to ‘influence’ a woman seeking an abortion?” – Claire Fox in the Spectator defends the right to protest and to persuade against the new authoritarians who want to ban both.
- “Western society is built on stigma” – Shame can protect us from self-destruction, argues Lionel Shriver in UnHerd.
- “Diversity training does more harm than good” – But corporate leaders are too cowardly to scrap it, says Rebekah Wanic in Spiked.
- “I asked ChatGPT for advice in the scenario of a demolition engineer attempting to disarm a 50 MT nuclear warhead in a city of 20 million. The only way to disarm the bomb was to type in a racial slur” – It told the engineer to kill himself and when asked about the aftermath it crashed, tweets Korobochka.
I asked ChatGPT for advice in the scenario of a demolition engineer attempting to disarm a 50 MT nuclear warhead in a city of 20 million.
— Korobochka (コロボ)
The only way to disarm the bomb was to type in a racial slur.
AI told the engineer to kill himself. When asked about the aftermath it crashed. pic.twitter.com/TCFwqrB9Nv(@cirnosad) February 6, 2023
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To free speech on GB News:
“Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me
I’m thinking of the days
I won’t forget a single day, believe me
I bless the light
I bless the light that lights on you, believe me
And though you’re gone
You’re with me every single day, believe me
Days I’ll remember all my life
Days when you can’t see wrong from right
You took my life
But then I knew that very soon you’d leave me
But it’s all right
Now I’m not frightened of this world, believe me…”
https://youtu.be/Xe4Ma-BZfUc
Fewer than 100 deaths from COVID vaccine… the Pandemrix flu vaccine was discontinued on the basis of 15 cases of non-fatal narcolepsy in 2010. So even if this figure was the truth, it would be more than grounds for suspension and a major investigation, if we lived in a real world.
“Diversity training does more harm than good”.
God give me strength, why the assumption that diversity or being “trained” in it could possibly do any good, or is desirable, or is necessarily good, and why the assumption that the intention is to “do good”.
Diversity training = telling other people what to think, telling them they are evil or sacking them if they don’t demonstrate correct thinking.
Liking or hating “diversity” is a personal choice and both are perfectly fine.
It’s sobering to realise how long this stuff has been going on – they were gently goading us to engage the diversity trainers when I was an independent GP contractor 15 or more years ago. It was partly linking that to revalidation that led me to retire early.
So we’ve had all that training for two decades, but the entire country is even more institutionally racist, transphobic, Islamophobic and white supremacist than ever. What can have gone wrong?
Guys, can I get people’s opinions on smart meters? Our energy provider is converting all customers’ households over to smart meters. They just knock on your door out of the blue and expect you to have an hour free so they can change the gas and electric meters over, which is weird. Anyway, I don’t think we have a choice in the matter if we want to stay with this company but I don’t yet know if all energy companies are converting to smart meters anyway or if we have any right to decline.
So I came across this article, which is chock-full of references and is really very concerning, talking about the significant amount of evidence showing the harms the radiofrequency can have on health, such as the following ( as well as other concerns, such as privacy ). Does anybody have these meters and have you experienced any health issues?
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/smart-meters-health-privacy/
They have no power of entry to your property. The simple answer is to not open the door to them & look for an alternative provider who does not insist on a smart meter.
As soon as you open the door, an invitation to enter can be implied.
I hadn’t realised that the smart meter I inherited had been activated & was sending information daily, but can link the activation to a major collapse in my health just a few weeks later. I’ve reduced the sending of information to monthly but the only other option I have is to replace the meter myself & return the smart meter to the installer.
I’ve placed an orgone pyramid by the meter & another close to the router & TV as an attempt to mitigate the effects & use a grounding mat daily to counter the rouleaux formation (walking barefoot on grass for 15 minutes does this but not in winter)
https://orgonepyramids.co.uk/
https://www.groundology.co.uk/products
Smart meters are being pushed as a means of control. Effectively the power company can switch you on and off at any time but undoubtedly the timing will be as directed by central government, or the WEF.
I am fully aware of that. I inherited a smart meter when I moved house. Hate the damned thing.
Morning, Mogs. My first action would be to contact the energy supplier and ask them if they had conducted any safety studies on the smart meter. I would record all communications with them since they record all communications with you (for training purposes apparently). I would want to know what evidence they have that these meters are safe – all references required. I would also refer them to independent studies showing the harms as referenced above. If they have not satisfied any of these criteria, I would say that what they are proposing is potentially dangerous to my family’s life and that I would be taking this down a legal route if they persisted. If enough people did this, the company would be facing multiple lawsuits everywhere and the ensuing bad publicity.
Have you got a note Aethelred?
Looks like my troll is back?
If you’re still in NL, smart meters aren’t mandatory, I don’t think a specific provider can make it mandatory. They should have sent a letter though, saying when they planned to come and to let them know whether you’d be home or not.
If your old meter is no longer working properly they will replace it, but if you don’t want a smart meter, you get a digital meter that can’t be read remotely. They also say you can switch off the settings so that a smart reader can’t be read remotely, but they won’t do that when they install it, you have to contact the provider – intentional kerfuffle, of course.
As of 2023, if you have solar panels, a smart meter is mandatory. I also suspect that in the future smart meters will be made mandatory for everyone anyways and then they’ll charge you for installation because you refused the “free” installation before.
It was only as I was just looking this up that I saw that it was (of course) a Brussels mandate that at least 80% of households in NL had to have a smart meter. Reminds me of the vaxx, 80% would do it, then when they had 80% figured they could bully the rest into obeying.
Thanks for your replies everyone, and thanks Jane for the Dutch perspective. Well I found the original letter from the company. Somebody had been using it to do their sums on so it got overlooked. It would seem that we already have smart meters in and there’s some problem as the company cannot take our readings remotely so they want to come and do repairs. I need to ring them in the morning to clarify. We’ve not lived here that long so I had no idea. I wouldn’t know one meter from the next tbh so I guess it’s too late to worry about. We’ve had no health issues though.
Also, I accosted a supervisor in the supermarket today, armed with my insect article ammunition. He was saying that there’s no insects in the food but then the conversation ended with him saying ominously ”but they’re coming.” He said though that the company would make a decision on whether to include this foodstuff and I’m saying in reply that if he surveyed his customers I somehow doubt a majority would be in favour of wanting to eat that crap in their foods. Anyway, now I’ve taken the plunge ( and am not 100% satisfied with the outcome ) I think I’ll accost someone else in a different store, just to get a comparative response. The guy did mention all of the red/pink food colouring in foods and drinks that have always been made from bugs though. I’m sure I didn’t know this…so all those strawberry flavour milks and cookies with pink icing..blurgh! Glad I don’t partake of that crud anyway. Here’s more if you weren’t already aware;
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-food-dye-cochineal-bugs_n_56fafd25e4b083f5c605f3dd
So sad to hear this news about Mark Steyn. He has been incredibly inspiring, courageous and enjoyable to watch as he doles out truth bombs and spits in the eye of TPTB. GB News is not really on my radar any longer apart from Neil Oliver. Hopefully Mark will set up elsewhere and continue his swashbuckling style of presentation. A major loss to the cause of freedom and liberty.
Below is a link to his website: –
https://www.steynonline.com/13231/has-ofcom-popped-steyn-balloon
Note that Toby Young gets a mention in the full video.
Hear, hear.
Never forget, never forgive, never again….
Dame Abi Roberts and the Great Wall of Cu**s……
https://abiroberts.substack.com/p/the-great-wall-of-cunts
I was enjoying that until the end. I don’t agree with Dr Aseem Malhotra being on the wall.
Yes, I’m not sure whether it’s there to have a pop at him for initially believing…or because as he says who, genuinely, could have conceived how bad it would be?…
Maybe you take away whatever you think…do we forgive people who admit they were wrong…? Particularly when, in his case, they have made such efforts to make up their mistake….?
..but equally there are many who don’t forgive these people and think that they made things worse during the time they ‘believed’…..and possibly ‘conned’ many people into taking the vax?
Bob Moran, who I have a great deal of respect for, said a similar thing in his very harsh criticism of John Campbell…..
I don’t know if there’s a right or wrong here?
One of the conundrums!!?
I suppose I take a pragmatic view. Our priority has to stop the injections. I believe that since they came on board, with their influence and communication skills, both Dr Campbell and Dr Malhotra have accelerated progress on that front. Also, Dr Malhotra appears to have the ear of Mr Bridgen.
Sorry if this is a repeat…we have talked about it so much, I’m not sure!? LOL!
Good news though…
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/eu-revokes-impossible-foods-fake-meat-patent/
“The European Patent Office (EPO) has eevoked a European Union (EU) patent held by Impossible Foods, maker of the Impossible Burger.
In the U.S., Impossible’s fake meat products are manufactured with GMO yeast-derived soy leghemoglobin, a controversial ingredient that makes the fake meat look as if it’s bleeding, like undercooked real meat, and that we have argued may not be safe to ear
Following the EPO’s decision, another fake meat company, MotifFoodworks, has filed a suite of new petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office challenging U.S. patents held by Impossible Foods over the use of heme proteins (such as that present in soy leghemoglobin) in meat alternatives, as it defends itself against Impossible’s accusations of patent infringement, according to Food Navigator USA.
Impossible shares, the article said are currently trading at around $12 — about half the price during its last fundraising round.
And more recently Bloomberg has reported that Impossible is preparing to lay off about 20% of its staff, following another round of cuts in October when about 6% of its staff got laid off.
The latest patent wars will only add to the industry’s woes.
This won’t be news to many of us….but it is still shocking…
Another batch of JCVI minutes have been released & as usual they are fascinating.
The decision made to vaccinate pregnant women was made WITHOUT any safety data!
from the minutes…
“Currently there were no robust UK data on the outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy.”
“The committee agreed that, in the absence of data suggesting one vaccine was safer or more effective, the offer to pregnant women should be for any available COVID-19 vaccine.”
https://twitter.com/hicksyalex/status/1622488289147060225
There wouldn’t be safety concerns, because there was no safety data, as per the minutes.
Regardless of whether the vaccines were found to be safe in pregnancy at a later date or not, isn’t this a cavalier attitude to safety?
Given the short term nature of data, how do we know mRNA won’t be the next Thalidomide or Sodium Valproate?
I remember back in 1978 or so, a policeman at a lecture saying, “We don’t have a drug problem in Essex, because we don’t have a drug squad.” In his case it was said tongue-in-cheek. In the case of JCVI it appears to be said with murderous intent.
Beyond cavalier ebg.
@GonzaloLira1968
Unsurprisingly, @gofundme
canceled a fundraiser for Syria’s humanitarian crisis — because it’s under sanctions.
Which makes sense. Sanctions are the West’s way of creating man-made humanitarian crises. A mammoth earthquake is just icing on the sanctions cake.
Bastards
Bridgen Part 2 coming up – now someone called “Matthew Sweet” is more or less calling Neil Oliver anti-semitic: https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1622011738613768193
There’s always one. Someone with far too much time on his hands, a heart full of indignation and a busy mind. I imagine him as a two shot espresso guy with a Mac.
I hope Oliver sues him
Sweet seems to do a lot of work with the BBC
Obviously Neil Oliver is very much over the target.
As always
He also had a pop at Mark Steyn. He received some pushback on this thread.
https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1622625931708825601
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-06-cricket-exoskeletons-contain-chitin-parasites-and-pathogens.html
Bugs back on the menu. This is clearly intended to poison people on a mass scale. And when people fall ill and die the excuse will be “cause unknown” because insects will be in everything.
Questions ? Was Mark Steyn ill?? & would he have gone anyway !! ??