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by Nick Dixon
19 February 2023 12:06 AM

  • “If masks are pointless, will I get an apology?” – The research is in. Wearing bits of cloth over your mouth and nose is almost certainly pointless, unless you are a bank robber trying to hide his identity, writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday.
  • “Partygate inquiry homes in on Abba evening at Boris Johnson’s flat” – Witnesses tell of a lockdown gathering with alcohol, food and loud music at a private apartment above 11 Downing Street, the Guardian reports.
  • “Welt report uncovers evidence of serious irregularities in the Pfizer phase 3 Comirnaty trial” – Welt have published a report shedding further light on what appear to be systematic efforts to cover up or reclassify adverse events among trial participants, writes eugyppius.
  • “Why Totalitarianism Can Never Be Total” – There are millions of people who have chosen to do battle against the technocrats who believe that they are invincible, writes Bert Oliver for Brownstone.
  • “Extinction Rebellion activist is behind protests to disrupt Coronation” – Eleanor Bujak has started a new role as the protest organiser at anti-Royal pressure group Republic, which interrupted King Charles’s visit to Milton Keynes with placards reading “Not My King”, the Mail reports.
  • “Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion could be blocked by Downing Street” – Whitehall officials and legal advisors are weighing up whether the London Mayor has exceeded his powers under the Greater London Authority (GLA) Act of 1999, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Take control and scrap Ulez to revive Tory fortunes” – Anti-car measures are regressive stealth taxes imposed by Left-wing councils. Central Government should intervene. It will prove popular, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
  • “Author who signed NYT trans letter tweets death threat to J.K. Rowling” – Gretchen Felker-Martin, well-known transgender horror author and journalist, tweeted that she wanted to slit the throats of J.K. Rowling and several other authors, the Mail reports.
  • “Trans teacher with Z-cup prosthetic breasts dresses as MAN” – The transgender high school teacher in Canada, who went viral for ‘her’ prosthetic Z-cup breasts, was allegedly seen by a neighbour dressing as a man outside school grounds, the Mail reports.
  • “Don’t call Taliban terrorists, author was told by ‘sensitivity reader’” – Author Kate Clanchy has warned that ‘sensitivity readers’ are destroying the art of writing, the Times reports.
  • “Why Gen Z is turning against woke culture” – Millennials were able to popularise and profit from woke. Gen Z, on the other hand, turned it into a cultural revolution and traumatised themselves, writes Panda La Terriere in the Spectator.
  • “‘My son was never trans – instead he had severe OCD’, a mother reveals” – A mother has revealed she was “let down” by those who were meant to help during her son’s harrowing experience with the Tavistock clinic, the Mail reports.
  • “The woke failed to seize Scotland. They won’t inherit the earth” – Today’s activists employ methods straight out of the Marxist playbook. But they just represent themselves, not the teeming masses, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
  • “Favourite to replace Nicola Sturgeon must ‘defeat the wokerati’ to lead SNP” – Party insiders warn that leadership front-runner Kate Forbes will face attacks from “the woke crowd, because of her religious beliefs”, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Unconscious bias training is ‘nonsense’, says outgoing race relations chair” – Civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod says the term ‘unconscious bias’ risks avoiding real conversation about racism and systemic behaviour, the Guardian reports.
  • “Oxford students should resist these medieval trigger warnings” – The enthusiasm for content warnings amongst today’s academics seems, like the medieval church, to be aimed at cracking down on texts that challenge today’s prevailing orthodoxies, writes William Atkinson in the Spectator.
  • “JK Rowling is no transphobe – and I should know” – After creating the fantasy of Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling did something even greater: she stood up for reality in a world where many do not seem to understand the difference between fact and fiction, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
  • “It’s not ‘far right’ to question Drag Queen Story Hour” – Parents’ legitimate safeguarding concerns are being dismissed as fascistic, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
  • “Nicola Sturgeon is rewriting history” – Nicola Sturgeon purged reason from the gender debate, writes Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
  • “Could your child soon be reading ‘Bye Bye, Binary’ or ‘She’s My Dad’?” – Publishing experts say there are now scores of titles aimed at under-11s introducing concepts such as men being mothers and children changing gender, the Mail on Sunday reports.
  • “Sturgeon’s leadership will be defined by her failures” – The further we get from Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation statement, the more it looks like surrender and the death of the SNP, version one, writes Alex Bell in the Telegraph.
  • “Dylan, you cannot escape what you are and what you will always be” – Watch Matt Walsh’s viral video on Dylan Mulvaney that is dividing anti-woke Twitter. Too harsh or exactly what we need?

A heartfelt message to Dylan Mulvaney pic.twitter.com/2C6jL54Q7Q

— The Honorable Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 14, 2023

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

“SLIT THROAT of JK Rowling,”
So, Jeremy Clarkson gets lambasted for a joke inferring a fictional walk of shame for Megan markle, but this person gets to make a direct threat against someone’s life and nothing is said!! Arrest her and make her pay the full price of the law.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

It also speaks volumes that Twitter would ban the likes of any doctor or highly credentialed expert who shared actual facts and data that inconveniently contradicts the Official Narrative but a POS like this human car crash with their death threats is totally acceptable. Could Clown World be any more f*cked up??

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Morning All!

A good Thread from Dr Clare Craig about the Marburg Virus…essentially pointing out it’s neither new or novel….

https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1626880386734104580
1998-2000 Democratic Republic of Congo 128 deaths from 154 cases in gold miners
2004-2005 Angola 150 deaths from 163 cases
2007 Uganda 2 miners died
2008 one death caught from bat in Ugandan by Dutch tourist
2009 one case caught from bat in Ugandan cave by US tourist
2008 one death caught from bat in Ugandan by Dutch tourist
2010 nothing
2011 nothing
2013 nothing
2014 Hospital worker died but no cases among their 197 contacts – Uganda
2015 nothing
2016 nothing
2017 Three deaths from three cases after man visited bat cave in Uganda and Kenya
2018 nothing
2019 nothing
2020 noting
2021 One death Guinea
2022 Two deaths three cases Ghana
2023 9 deaths, 16 suspected cases, 1 positive PCR test Equatorial Guinea
2 false positives in Cameroon
The 2023 outbreak is on a par with 2012.

Because it is spread via bodily fluids in the sick interventions to contain its spread work.

The first thing I noticed was…DONT go into bat caves!! LOL!

Second thing is this re-tweet to Clare from Robin Monotti…
Join the dots..
#Marburg #MarburgVirus #MarburgScam twitter.com/DrTedros/statu…

“NIH January 30th 2023…Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-
human study.”

double LOL!

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/the-tte-data-snapshot-week-5?r=zi22l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson with a TTE weekly update….what is astonishing this week is their info/graphs about NHS absenteeism….

NHS staff absences might interest you: on 14 Nov 2022, there were 50,067 staff absent from work through sickness or self-isolation in English acute hospitals. By 5 Feb 2023, this increased by 11,362 absences a day to 61,429, a 23 per cent increase compared with three months ago.
The locum agencies will be having a field day. Add to the current absences the number of vacancies, and you’re looking at over 100,000 hospital folks missing from action. If this trend continues, they’ll be no one left to go on strike.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

You have just got to love Babylon Bee….

https://babylonbee.com/news/corporation-celebrates-lgbtq-pride-by-making-ohio-river-rainbow-colored

Corporation Celebrates LGBTQ Pride With Rainbow-Colored River

EAST PALESTINE, OH — In a powerful display of solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, Norfolk Southern dumped thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Ohio River to create beautiful rainbow-colored water.
“Wow! So pretty! Look at all those colors!” said CEO Alan H. Shaw. “We hope our valued members of the LGBTQQIP2SAA+++ community feel seen and valued by our loving gesture of support.
Don’t drink it though,” he warned. 
Activists and allies around the country celebrated the beautiful shimmering display at a time when many believe corporations are just going through the motions with their LGBTQ+ support. “While other multi-billion-dollar companies simply change their logos for a month, Norfolk Southern went the extra mile,” said local queer activist and preschool teacher Xen Minxie. “So inspiring. Now can someone please look at this strange growth on my neck?”
Norfolk Southern confirmed there are more pride-themed surprises on the way, starting with rainbow-colored acid rain next week.

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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
2 years ago

‘They tried to buy me…What do you want? You can have anything you want”’ Andrew Bridgen details the alleged bribery he has endured from Number 10 to get him to stop speaking about the COVID-19 vaccines.

https://twitter.com/Dominiquetaegon/status/1627315949777846274?cxt=HHwWhICwvYDPsZUtAAAA

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://twitter.com/juneslater17/status/1627105498427162624?s=20

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