“Triple threat Arcturus variant already in U.K.,” reads the headline in the Express. It cites virologist Dr. Lennard Lee to outline three particular concerns as the latest variant spreads: vulnerable patients, the impact of long Covid, and disruption to schools. Lee also claims we face multiple Covid waves every year.
Despite conceding that vaccines have not stopped transmission, Lee emphasises the importance of making better vaccines as the virus evolves.
The Express has the story.
As of April 11th, 66 cases [of the Arcturus Covid variant] had been detected in the U.K., with the figure likely to have risen significantly since then, Dr. Lee acknowledged, while highlighting three key areas – vulnerable patients, the impact of long Covid, and disruption to schools.
The Independent SAGE adviser and Academic Clinical Lecturer in Medical Oncology at the University of Oxford told Express.co.uk he and colleagues were monitoring Arcturus carefully.
He explained: “It’s got new mutations on it which allow it to spread slightly better, not greatly better, but slightly better, and it has driven the recent surge across India. What we’re seeing at the moment is slightly different in terms of what it looks like in humans. There’s early data showing that it affects the eyes and it causes conjunctivitis.
“What it really points to is that this virus is clever, and it is continuing to evolve with time. The tricky thing is that what’s happening is viruses are emerging around the world and they spread very, very quickly nowadays, so they come to our shores very quickly.” …
Emphasising the importance of vaccine technology to keep pace with the disease, he concluded: “The issue is that first-generation vaccines have not stopped transmission, and you can still get Covid and pass it on.
“Vaccines are our tools and we need to keep improving them as the virus evolves too. Ultimately, we want to try and minimise these waves which keep landing on our shores and we have to hope that it continues to be mild like Arcturus, but also have the tools ready if it were to change.”
When will this nonsense and fearmongering end? In case Dr. Lee hadn’t noticed, the majority of excess deaths this year are from non-Covid causes.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-draws-up-plans-to-slash-inheritance-tax-2bqttmcg9
As always with the puppet liars the question to ask is – what are they up to now?
I suspect the answer to this is quite mundane; as general taxation rises inexorably and strips many households of surplus income the likelihood of there being an inheritance to pass on becomes more and more remote. But Fishy didn’t take all your wealth via IHT did he? Oh no, we surrendered our wealth for the greater good. He must be laughing his socks off.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12526107/We-live-shoplifting-capital-Britain-completely-LAWLESS-weve-given-police.html
And news reports coming from the US confirm exactly the same. The only conclusion is that this is deliberate and co-ordinated. It is being managed here by some nefarious unit in Whitehall.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66906201
Oh look, following the surrender of firearms licenses by 100 Met officers – understandably – the MOD have offered Army assistance to bring the rabble under control. Coming soon.
It seems typical of our times that government can’t discern a difference between arming peers to combat crime, and using the armed forces to do so.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/we-have-been-sleepwalking-into-state-censorship-and-now-it-is-nearly-here/
A terrific article from the wonderful and brave Kathy Gyngell over at TCW outlining the frightening levels of censorship now and to come.
Great article…Kathy and all at TCW are absolute stars…
I think Russel Brand is posting on Rumble sometime today….
Clause 39 of the Magna Carta is still enshrined in law and still remains in force in England and Wales..something the MSM should bloody remember…!!?
“NO freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will we not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right.”
Latest leaflet
Also:CNN
Russia’s foreign minister says the U.S. and the UK are “directly at war” with Russia
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/09/24/exp-lavrov-unga-ukraine-war-speech-roth-lkl-09142aseg1-cnni-world.cnn
What did they really expect when they killed a British citizen on British soil with a lethal biological agent?
These guys make Bunter and the well named Hancock look like strategic masterminds….
LOL!
I don’t believe that MSM/Government story anyway….Where are the Skripals now, why can no one talk to them? Why have we never heard their side of this story?
But even if I did I would ask what difference there is between that and the fact that in the last twenty years the USA has unilaterally killed over 50 different people, usually by drone strike, in over ten different SOVEREIGN countries….
Did they have anyone’s permission….did they ask or even care to ask anyone’s opinion in those SOVEREIGN countries..or in the larger world?
It is also well documented that UK assisted in numerous US operations…supplying surveillance intelligence to target suspects…
In 2017 Government Ministers Rory Stewart and Gavin Williamson both announced that it was Government Policy to kill British ISIS fighters…rather than bring them to Justice under the rule of law…..
There is apparently no limit to the right the West hypocritically asserts, to kill people without trial…and so as long as they subscribe to this sordid business why shouldn’t any other country?
Maybe they could try to lead by example?? LOL!
Where are the Skripals now? You mean the Skripals that were followed by Soviet, sorry, Russian Federation agents and poisoned, saved only by their proximity to Britain’s best CBRN defence research facilities….those Skripals…?
They must be really keen now to let you, everyone else and, particularly, the Soviets, sorry Russian Federation people know where they are so they can have another go, maybe, for example, via their underpants…..
It’s the way you tell ’em……the ribs……
…If the Skripal’s are still alive, which is unlikely as they were whisked away by British Intelligence and have been neither seen nor heard from..since 2019 ….. they could give evidence by video link couldn’t they?
It would be useful because the family of Dawn Sturgess are currently suing the Government in a multi million pound lawsuit…
“In a London courtroom last week, lawyers for the British government and the presiding judge, Lord Anthony Hughes revealed they will resist the efforts of the Dawn Sturgess family to obtain a multi-million pound settlement in compensation for what they claim, and the government says, was her death five years ago from Novichok poisoning by Russian state agents.
Secrecy is the key, not only to the big money claim, but to the government’s aim to defeat it and at the same time preserve the official story that the Kremlin ordered and carried out the chemical warfare attack in England in 2018”
They are in a pickle!
To that end they aren’t calling any witnesses … not the drug addicts in the flat with her..not the doctors or hospital staff…not ambulance staff…not her partner..all of whom, some might say amazingly, didn’t suffer any illness or after effects….from being in contact with her…
(just for the record neither did the ‘Soviets’ or anyone they mixed with in the cafes, shops or the staff at the hotel they stayed in…miraculous)!
…nor will they question the Coroner from the first post-mortem, which didn’t show any sign of poisoning…as there would then, by law, have to be a full enquiry into the cause of her death….??!
This ‘Open Enquiry’ (LOLZ) opens to the public in late 2024….
’18 November 2021 the Home Secretary announced the Government’s decision to establish an inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 to investigate the death of Dawn Sturgess.
Dawn Sturgess was pronounced dead at Salisbury District Hospital on 8 July 2018. The post mortem indicated the cause of her death was Novichok poisoning.’
The Sunday Times says the Skripals are in NZ.
Good day to you.
….stop worrying about your ribs…the lack of curiosity or your adherence to believing the MSM however..?
Clinical and witness evidence that the first post morgen of July 9-10 2018, did not identify Novichock as the cause of Sturgess’s death…that did not happen until a second post mortem had been carried out and a new report issued on November 29th…
(some four months later)…??
That is why this will not be used in the ‘new enquiry’…!
You could be right they could be in NZ….then again I think they’re dead..and I have just as much evidence to prove it ..
Good afternoon….
‘With little cash, I furnished the flat with items that would have been thrown away. I scoured charity shops and bins, getting electrical equipment, kitchenware and stuff. I found all sorts – gold necklaces, earrings, treasures for Dawn. She’d look forward to seeing what I’d pull from my sack next. Dawn said she wanted a sapphire engagement ring – but she’d happily settle for a Haribo ring. That said it all.
Going through one bin, I found a perfume box. “Wahey, winner!” I thought. It was sealed in plastic, expensive-looking, so I pocketed it. Unwittingly, I’d done something the police hadn’t managed in three months since the Skripal attack – I’d found the Novichok bottle.
I gave it to Dawn on the morning of Saturday, 30 June. “Oooh, it’s a good one,” she grinned. It was tightly closed so I needed a sharp knife to open it, and the nozzle needed attaching, which seemed strange. I put it together and Dawn happily sprayed it on her wrists and rubbed them together. I’d got spray on my hand so I went to wash it off.
When I came back from the bathroom, Dawn was in a bad way, staring at nothing and foaming at the mouth. “Dawn!” I shook her. No response. I rang for help – and after that it’s a blur.
My friend Sam came while the ambulance was outside my house and saw Dawn being stretchered out while I was in bits, an emotional, crying wreck.
Then I started acting weirdly paranoid and began attacking Sam. I had him by the neck, trying to strangle him. I thought he was trying to kill me, and that he’d done the same to Dawn.
Luckily, Sam stuck by me. “I’m your friend,” he said. “I’m not going to leave you even though you’re attacking me. I’m staying with you.” Apparently I was frothing at the mouth and sweating, my eyes were glazed, red and milky coloured.
I started rocking backwards and forwards and muttering some weird language, like something out of a zombie film. Sam rang 999 – I would be dead if he hadn’t. I was taken to the same hospital as Dawn. While I was unconscious, Wiltshire Police declared a major incident, stating we’d had potential exposure to an unknown substance. Tragically, Dawn died that day.
Once it was confirmed as Novichok, the police liaison officers found my brother, Matthew, and organised a hospital visit. was in the hospital for three weeks. When I woke up and came off the ventilator a doctor explained that Dawn had died. I couldn’t take it in. The police explained the perfume contained the nerve agent Novichok. Confused, I said, “No, it was perfume.”
It hurts too much to remember. I’d lost my girlfriend, my partner, my soul mate.
Because of the nerve damage I couldn’t see properly and had problems with my heart and lungs too.’
Charlie Rowley 07 Feb 2022
More holes than a Swiss cheese..It’s heartening to see you clinging to the agenda…
ah..the scent bottle ..miraculously found, in a skip, two months after the event..LOL….and although the flat was searched by the Police after the drug overdoses, and having been handled by numerous people..and no ill -effects it was only after NINE days..when the security services had taken over from local Police..that it became the ‘murder weapon’….
Also before the ‘feds’ took over…..
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/16327500.police-warn-drug-users-contamination-leaves-two-hospital/
Wiltshire Police declare a major incident..
Emergency services were called to an address in Muggleton Road on Saturday evening after a man and woman, both in their 40s, were found unconscious in a property.
They are both currently receiving treatment at Salisbury District Hospital and are both in a serious condition.
Detective Sergeant Eirin Martin, from Salisbury CID, said: “At this stage we believe the two patients have fallen ill after using a contaminated batch of drugs, possibly heroin or crack cocaine.
Det Sgt Eirin Martin, from Salisbury CID, said: At this stage there is nothing to suggest there is any risk to the wider public.”
“It was hot and many were out having barbecues when they heard sirens and saw flashing lights as first ambulances, then the fire brigade and police arrived in Muggleton Road.
They saw seven fire engines and fire officers wearing hazmat suits at the scene. The house was cordoned off and the word here was that this was a suspected drugs overdose.”…
The next morning on their twitter account Swindon Fire stated, “thankfully the incident wasn’t serious and our decontamination shower wasn’t required.”
NONE of these people will be asked to attend the ‘open enquiry’….
I wonder why?…although I appreciate you don’t….
LOL! ?
Anyhoo I think everyone will have had enough now..so I’ll leave it at that….so get your ‘last-tap’ in now…hahaha…..
‘“I was the first person into the house… We had to make sure that there was no other casualties in the house. It was vital for us to find out what had actually happened to them…The house was in darkness. It just looked normal. There was nothing untoward. Came out of the house, secured it again, took our forensic suits off, which we then bagged up and then went back to the station.”
‘Shortly afterwards, Nick began to feel unwell: “My pupils were like pin pricks. And I was quite sweaty and hot. At that time I put it down to being tired and stressed.”
He went to bed at the end of his shift, hoping he’d sleep it off, but by Tuesday he was feeling even worse so his family rushed him to hospital. He said, “Everything was juddering, I was very unsteady on my feet. The sweating had gone from my forehead down my back. My whole body was dripping with sweat.”
Recalling the moment Nick was told blood tests revealed he had the deadly nerve agent Novichok in his system, he said: “I didn’t understand how it had happened, scared because it’s the fear of the unknown because it’s such a dangerous thing to have in your system. Knowing how the other two [Yulia and Sergei Skripal] were or how badly they’d been affected by it, I was petrified.”
It wasn’t until 15 days after the attack, that the investigation discovered how the Skripals and Nick Bailey had come into contact with the Novichok. It had been sprayed on the door handle of the Skripals home.’
‘A SECOND POLICE officer has been found with traces of the Novichok nerve agent in his system following the Salisbury attack last year, Met Police have confirmed.’
‘Met Police have confirmed today that the officer displayed signs at the time of the incident that indicated exposure to a very small amount of Novichok. The officer received appropriate medical treatment for this at the time and returned to duties shortly afterwards, according to police.
Forensic examination of the officer’s blood sample that was taken in March 2018 has since been carried out by scientists on behalf of the investigation team.
The forensic test – which uses a different method to that used to assess the clinic effects of nerve agent poisoning – has now given detectives confirmation that traces of Novichok were in the blood sample.’
Re inheritance tax – this tax often falls due because of the massive value of property, so perhaps the government expect property to become valueless when it considers imposing ridiculous strictures on having to have an ASHP installed to be able to sell it.
Police not allowed to wear glitter and face paint at demos? I mean, really, what right minded adult actually WANTS to wear glitter and face paint? Dignity seems to have gone out of the window along with everything else.
Maybe if they had been willing to investigate and comment on the lockdown fiasco I might have more sympathy. As it was they didn’t dare to carry questions from eminent scientists who thought lockdown was likely to be destructive and unnecessary. The way NMA members remained in lockstep with the so called Trusted News Initiative showed they were not independent news providers by any stretch of the imagination.
Sure, anyone who relies on Facebook for current affairs news is an idiot. But we can’t fix that by putting real news into that cesspit. A plague on both your houses springs to mind.
“The U.K. News Media Association”
As you say, it serves them right. I have zero sympathy.
I know we live in
world, but some things just take the biscuit…
Anyone feel like joining ? LOL!
https://americorps.gov/newsroom/press-release/president-biden-launches-american-climate-corps-announces-new-americorps
WASHINGTON, DC — On the week of AmeriCorps 30th anniversary, President Biden announced the creation of the American Climate Corp, AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service, will serve as the hub for the American Climate Corps.
The American Climate Corps is an interagency partnership between AmeriCorps, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Departments of Labor, Interior, Agriculture, and Energy.
“President Biden’s American Climate Corps is a bold and necessary response to the concerns of young people across America. From record heat and extreme flooding to devastating wildfires, climate change is an existential threat to life as we know it. AmeriCorps members have been combatting these threats since our founding and we’re prepared to accelerate and strengthen our response,”
Thank goodness, we are saved!!??
https://www.whitehouse.gov/climatecorps/
President Biden is announcing a new initiative to train young people in high-demand skills for jobs in the clean energy economy. The American Climate Corps will put a new generation of Americans to work conserving our lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, advancing environmental justice, deploying clean energy, implementing energy efficient technologies, and tackling climate change. American Climate Corps members will gain the skills necessary to access good-paying jobs that are aligned with high-quality employment opportunities after they complete their paid training or service program.
Sign up to learn about how you can join the American Climate Corps.
There should be an ‘e’ or ‘es’ on the end of Corps.
LOL!
“Bristol University students ban British Army from freshers’ fair”
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA – uberwoke DEI organisation bans another uberwoke DEI organisation. Transphobes! Hate Speech! White Supremacists or something! It’s starting to eat its own tail….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xBiyidQ9g
Dr John Campbell’s latest…
Excess deaths in 2023 confirmed…
LOL!
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-house-of-commons-speaker-apologizes-for-honoring-98-year-old-ukrainian-nazi-claims-idea-was-entirely-his?utm_campaign=64466
On Sunday, the Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota apologized for his decision to honor 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka in front of the Canadian Parliament after it was revealed that the Ukrainian fought with the Nazi Waffen-SS during the Second World War.
In a post on X, Rota said, “On September 22, in the House of Commons, I recognized an individual in the gallery. I have subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision to do so.
“I wish to make clear that no one, including fellow parliamentarians and the Ukraine delegation, was aware of my intention or of my remarks before I delivered them,” he added. “This initiative was entirely my own, the individual in question being from my riding and having been brought to my attention.”
“I particularly want to extend my deepest apologies to Jewish communities in Canada and around the world. I accept full responsibility for my actions,” Rota concluded.
LOL…did he also go around forcing the idiotic members cheer and clap??
So here we go with the lies misinformation and censorship…..this is an absolutely egregious hit-piece against Rumble….
The Times today…
The “free speech” website that hosts Russell Brand could be forced out of the UK under new online safety laws, experts have said.
Rumble, a video-sharing platform based in North America, has become home to Brand and other figures with extreme views, including Andrew Tate and Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist.
It also hosts extreme videos on race and antisemitism that mainstream platforms such as YouTube have made more of an effort to take down.
Under the Online Safety Bill, which is due to become law next month, Rumble will be regulated by Ofcom because it is accessible in the UK.
Under the new law Rumble will have to prevent children from seeing pornography and material that promotes self-harm, suicide or eating disorders. Violent content and material harmful to health, such as vaccine misinformation, will also have to be kept from children.
Ofcom will also draw up new guidelines on violence against women and girls that will have to be adhered to.
Rumble will also have to take down material that is illegal, such as videos that incite violence or race hate.
All these obligations will be hard for Rumble’s management to stomach, according to Lord Allan of Hallam, a former Facebook executive who has advised on the bill.
Noncooperation could leave Rumble executives open to arrest if they came to Britain, as the bill provides for senior managers to be held criminally liable.
Professor Lorna Woods, an internet law expert who was one of the architects of the bill, said Ofcom had the ability to disrupt or block Rumble if it did not comply.
etc..etc….
Also The Grayzone’s YouTube Live Stream Was Demonetised just For Featuring a Clip of Russell Brand….
Watch this space….!!!
Yeah, I said that it was inevitable they’d go after Rumble and Locals. They’re going to try to do all the same stuff to Rumble that they did to Parler. The state can’t currently do anything about VPNs, though, and huge numbers of people have those now.
I love how they imply Rumble actually carries all that dodgy material. Maybe they should look into YouTube carrying material showing animal torture, such as the slaughter of macaques in liquidisers for amusement or all these dodgy ‘animal rescue’ organisations appealing for money by torturing and crippling animals, then showing themselves ‘rescuing’ them.
Every social media organisation has dark corners, but increasingly dangerous states are only interested in destroying those carrying politically inexpedient views about the world. We’re at the start of another Dark Age.
Yes..it’s a total hit-job.
Nothing about the kiddy porn on you tube….….and as you say, inferring that Rumble doesn’t police it’s site..which it does….
Lord Allen, ‘formerly’ of Facebook….yep, he’s an independent source..LOL…
I think Rumble are already in a huge court case with Google so the knives are definitely out….
Very readable article about the DNA found in the vaccines….put into laymen’s terms…
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/scientists-shocked-and-alarmed-at-whats-in-the-mrna-shots/
Yes, perhaps they could pay the tax to the UN? I’m sure they’ll make sure it’s all spent wisely.
The man’s an idiot.
“The man’s an idiot.”
Gordon Brown an idiot? Surely not. Don’t forget he “saved the world.”
Gordon Brown is and always was a firkin idiot. I don’t think he knows what planet he is on.
The ‘How BlackRock Conquered the World’ video is excellent.
Quite scary..they obviously are much more in charge due to the amount of money and influence they have, than any ‘democratic’ Government….
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/first-the-united-kingdom-now-sweden?r=9damc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
First the United Kingdom, now Sweden: As the European economy falters, Net Zero plans are retooled from hard deadlines to moving walls of future utopian aspiration
…..in 2017, when then-Deputy Swedish Prime Minister Isabella Lövin signed into law a landmark climate bill committing the country to carbon neutrality by 2045, she tweeted a girl-power picture of the act …
…Today, it is in full scale collapse….
….EU imports of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) have increased by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine despite efforts to cut down supplies…
Germany-Backed SEFE Set to Take First Russian LNG Since CrisisSEFE to receive Russian LNG on Oct. 1 and send it to India.
Europe…winning!!!
If Net Zero really is desirable (the biggest IF ever, since it has all the hallmarks of a BlackRock scam!) it’s unachievable before at least the end of this century. When you want to make massive change, you have to build a replacement infrastructure first, not reduce us to the Stone Age. I wonder if the governments starting to row back is partly to do with people beginning to realise that the there are these weird organisations like the WEF, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street controlling us through a corrupted financial system.
Jeff Taylor just now, tells us UK to pull plug on Rumble , how queer ,
“London’s e-bikes are out of control”
Yes, I’m aware that some people drive the things like maniacs, but TPTB need to make up their minds – do they want people to switch to electric forms of transport or not?
For me, not.
…hard to think how this could get any more farcical….?
Karina Gould
@karinagould
Like all MPs, I had no further information than the Speaker provided. Exiting the Chamber I walked by the individual and took a photo. As a descendent of Jewish Holocaust survivors I would ask all parliamentarians to stop politicising an issue troubling to many myself included.
https://twitter.com/karinagould/status/1706077358619255077
Michelle Rempel Garner
@MichelleRempel
The fact that no one thought to ask @karinagould if she had met with this guy and posted it on her instagram prior to sending her out to communicate that the government knew nothing about it is…..an unmitigated disaster. They should be nowhere near the levers of power.
….and yes there’s a photo of Gould holding the man’s hand! LOL!