- “Joe Biden may be forced to declassify intelligence into COVID-19 origins” – Joe Biden is under pressure to declassify all U.S. intelligence about the origins of COVID-19 after the House and Senate voted unanimously for the information to be released, the Telegraph reports.
- “Scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory ‘as they feared ban on high-risk experiments’” – Scientists dismissed the COVID-19 lab leak theory because they wanted to continue doing dangerous ‘gain-of-function’ experiments to make viruses more deadly, Anton van der Merwe, a Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Simon Case warned Boris Johnson of the ‘terrible’ consequences of lockdown” – WhatsApp messages obtained by the Telegraph show how Simon Case, the country’s most senior civil servant, insisted “we have to be brutally honest with people” over the consequences of lockdown – including the effects on “non-Covid health”, mental health, education and jobs. He wasn’t arguing against doing it though.
- “Was Sweden right about Covid all along?” – The land of common sense seems to be thriving while Britain is counting the cost of harsh lockdown restrictions, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data” – Michael Simmons in the Speccie with a deep dive into the mortality data that show, whichever way you cut it, Sweden wins.
- “First do no harm” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson suggest that the option to do nothing is underrated.
- “Ukrainian healthcare is better than the NHS” – Despite the war, you can still see a doctor when you need to – no wonder refugees go back for treatment, writes Maria Chaplia in the Telegraph.
- “Iatrogenic deaths: was it mishandling society or mishandling Covid?” – El Gato Malo looks at U.S. excess deaths in 2020 by climate zone and concludes that the death spikes are connected with the virus, but a large proportion of such deaths are likely due to faulty treatment protocols.
- “Three Dots: Well, that was weird…” – Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse report on the evidence that the former and Matt Taibbi gave before the House Committee on the Weaponisation of Government this week.
- “Anatomy of the sinister Covid Project, Part 5” – Paula Jardine in TCW tracks the development of military virus and vaccine research in the years leading up to the pandemic and its connection with SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA inoculations.
- “Lockdown-loving bishops, where is your remorse?” – The egregious failure of the Church of England’s bishops to question, let alone resist, the Covid dictatorship must not be overlooked, writes Julian Mann in TCW.
- “BBC is caught in fresh impartiality row over new David Attenborough show that will not be aired on regular TV amid claims that Beeb bosses ‘fear rightwing backlash’” – A Wild Isles episode that focuses on themes of the destruction of nature across the U.K. reportedly won’t be broadcast to fend off criticism from the Right, according to the Mail.
- “The Green Economy’s Heart of Darkness” – There is no such thing as clean cobalt, writes Noel Yaxley in Compact Magazine.
- “Bit of an eco-hypocrite, Leo! Jet loving DiCaprio heads to green fashion awards in LA – after travelling 12,000 miles in two weeks to chase models in Europe” – The actor has proven to be something of an eco-hypocrite once again for heading to a green fashion event in LA after clocking up 12,000 airmiles in two weeks, the Mail reports.
- “‘Misgendering’ is not a crime” – Still less is it terrorism, writes Tim Dieppe in the Critic, marking the acquittal on appeal of Christian street preacher Dave McConnell after he was previously convicted of the spurious crime of ‘misgendering’.
- “Ofsted chief’s warning over explicit sex education lessons” – Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Ofsted, tells the Telegraph she has warned the Government that the current relationships and sex education (RSE) guidance places no limit on what can be taught.
- “The Thing That Swallowed Britain” – Dan Hitchens writes in Compact Magazine about ‘the Thing’: “That combination of postmodern identity theory, religious fervour, pseudo-therapeutic ’empathy’, dogmatic moralism, private bullying and ritualised public humiliation which has swept through Western societies over the last decade.”
- “Colonialism and the culture wars with Nigel Biggar” – In the CapX podcast, Professor Nigel Biggar addresses the question, How bad was the British Empire?
- “ChatCCP? – The ‘Know-It-All With Flair’– Chatbot’s Hidden Agenda” – Randall Bock suspects an ulterior motive to the AI technology.
- “The rise of hyper-tokenism” – Why do TV shows insist on presenting Britain as far more ‘diverse’ than it actually is, asks Patrick West in Spiked.
- “J.K. Rowling-backed petition for Government to make clear that ‘sex means biological sex, not sex as modified by gender recognition certificate’ in Equality Act will be debated in Parliament” – The Harry Potter author was among those to support the proposal which seeks to “make it clear” that “sex” and “gender reassignment” are separate protected characteristics, the Mail reports.
- “BBC faces revolt after Gary Lineker told to step down over migrant Nazi jibe” – Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have refused to appear on Saturday’s flagship football show after the corporation said the presenter breached its guidelines on the use of social media, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Lineker row isn’t about free speech – it’s a moral coup” – The BBC knows that “if it allows big names to wax lyrical on politics, in defiance of the rules, then it would have no way of stopping other Beeb people from using this licence payer-funded entity as a personal soapbox,” writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “If Gary Lineker says things like this in future, will it cause financial loss for the BBC? I think maybe” – Watch Toby on GB News discuss the free speech nuances of Lineker’s provocative social media output.
‘If Gary Lineker says things like this in future, will it cause financial loss for the BBC? I think maybe.’
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 10, 2023
Toby Young addresses the ‘difficult nuances’ of Gary Lineker being asked to ‘step back’ from his Match of the Day role.GB News YouTube: https://t.co/Wa58gYGZwF pic.twitter.com/75kz1ZcFfa
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KEY 5 min Update: Dr Peter Doshi * Associate Editor of the BMJ * – Ivor Cummins
WOW!
Doshi has played a straight bat throughout this fiasco. That he hasn’t either been cancelled or put on gardening leave suggests to me that the readership of the BMJ, who I believe are mainly front line medical practitioners, don’t disagree with him.
Here’s the press advisory that Sen. Johnson’s office presumably sent to many major media sources (as well as officials from the CDC and NIH). It shows who was going to be on the panel and what they would speak about. This panel includes at least one legitimate “whistle blower,” a flight surgeon in the U.S. Army.
Question: How many reporters attended this event and filed stories?
These reporters and news organizations do not want to publish the truth, or any comments from credible people who challenge accepted “truths.”
https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2021/10/media-advisory-sen-johnson-holds-expert-panel-on-federal-vaccine-mandates-and-vaccine-injuries
This event should have gotten major media coverage. I know the senator’s office sent invitations to the press to attend (I posted the press advisory yesterday). I doubt any press members from mainstream news organizations showed up though. I certainly haven’t read any stories about the remarks of these panelists. BTW, there were a lot more panelists with interesting things to say, including an Army flight surgeon “whistle blower.”
Riddle: If you blow a whistle and nobody hear the whistle did the whistle really get blown? Or: Did the effort make any kind of difference?
Who is supposed to let the world know people are blowing warning whistles?
Julian Assange. Conveniently for them they had the foresight to lock him up so he couldn’t fulfil that role.
This is bombshell stuff wow. Very hard for Normies to dismiss; the tide is turning.
But it was dismissed because the press didn’t cover it. I’ve seen several links to “alternative media” sites that covered it. I haven’t seen any Washington Post story. CNN wasn’t there.
Yes it can. Didn’t our British citizens in America declare their independence from Britain in the eighteenth century? Oh, yes, war followed. And they won. And what about the southern states from the union in the nineteenth century. War again. And they lost.
Unilateral declarations are possible. Outcomes not guaranteed.
Without cooperation from the public authorites of this muncipality, the state of California will have to conquer and occupy it to enforce its laws there.
It’s a good start, getting an armed force to defend their independence.
In instances like this people’s belief in the right to self-determination is challenged.
The cognitive dissonance is often painful.
Who’s next: Republic of Macclesfield? Heptarchy of Hull? Bring on radical splinter polities! AKA plandemic civil war. Meanwhile belly laughs are heard from as far afield as China and Russia…
I don’t relish civil war because it means death and destruction and of many innocents but at some point, somewhere insurrection is I believe inevitable.
Just because one state votes or chooses to leave a national union doesn’t mean there has to be a war. The Soviet Union broke up almost over night with several new nations emerging with no bloodshed at all.
I’d be curious if one or more states seceded, if soldiers of the U.S. Army would go to those Staes and kill people to get them to stay in the union. Army officers who have left the Army have told me, sadly, that the remaining troops WOULD do this.
No divorces allowed in America apparently.
Direct democracy.
It’s the only way.
I think it will be fun for China to compare it to Taiwan.
“Newsom’s policies, however, appear to have worked and the state had the lowest Covid infection rate in the U.S. last month.”
A classic Groan propaganda report – straight down the tube from the Cabinet Orifice. Hold the front page! (Until we’ve licked up the shit)
Yeah, this article is complete bullshit and changing the facts to fit an agenda.
Of course we get this sentence: “Newsom’s policies, however, appear to have worked and the state had the lowest Covid infection rate in the U.S. last month.”
Has California had the lowest infection rates in the U.S. throughout the pandemic? As far as I can tell, they’ve always had the most draconian lockdown policies but until now (I guess) they’ve never had the lowest infection rate in the U.S.
So the policies are working now but for some reason didn’t work earlier.
Florida has FAR more obese and elderly people AND did and does better.
Go figure.
This lady, who I am going to call “Karen,” probably hails from non-rural sections of California.
Be warned though. This flight was heading to London. The man Karen was trying to get kicked off the flight for violating her rights – the man whose “oxygen” she was forced to breathe – is now presumably on the loose in London Town.
https://t.me/patriotlife/649?fbclid=IwAR1BWRnzxMnRanMC9vJXNuu2sjyMd-qMsc3ThDu8WMXxB4SjJm7HZZcbzz0
Looks acted.
Upon second viewing you may be right. If it is a staged event they spent a fair amount of money producing it. I wonder who produced it.
Even if it is actors working from a script, the scene depicted HAS and is occurring in similar forms across the world.
As you don’t see the rest of the aircraft, I’d be suspicious.
Yes. I’ve watched it twice now and see several things that don’t ring true. Dang. They probably got me. Still, I think the sentiments depicted – and Karen’s “lines” – capture the views of many.
I think that it’s a spoof, someone posted to that effect yesterday.
I suspect these Buttes may get fukked if they kick too hard against the prikks.
“Whatever they mean by constitutional republic you can’t say hocus pocus and make it happen”.
That’s rich.
The lunatic covid modellers masquerading as experts seem to think saying hocus pocus makes it so. Hence the Californian state must accept Oroville’s independence declaration, or recognise that if they won’t tolerate hocus pocus they don’t have any authority themselves.
“A municipality cannot unilaterally declare itself not subject to the laws of the state of California”.
Well it just did. There may be consequences but the declaration has been made.
Nothing new, here in the darkest South West we already have a republic…
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Maybe it’s just the date. But increasingly I’m thinking of 1605.
It’s been done before.
The Principality of Hutt River is situated 595 km north of Perth, Western Australia and is about 75 square km in area, consisting of some 18,500 acres of land.
The Principality of Hutt River is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from Australia on the Twenty First Day of April 1970 (it is of comparable size to Hong Kong (not the New Territories).
The Principality consists of undulating farmland well covered in places with a wealth of shrubs and glorious wildflowers in season.
http://principality-hutt-river.com/
could soon get awfully crowded if people catch on…
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Two States Of California
Lecture by Victor Davis Hanson said it all so many years ago. Available on YouTube.
Oroville? Never heard of it. Lived in California for 9 years.