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News Round-Up

by Ian Macleod
16 May 2023 12:48 AM

  • “Farewell questions for Rochelle Walensky” – Given what we now know about the failure of Covid vaccines to provide sterilising immunity, stop infection or stop spread, El Gato Malo has some questions for the outgoing CDC boss in Brownstone.
  • “After Covid: 12 challenges for a shattered world” – In Brownstone, Jeffrey A. Tucker outlines 12 challenges that must be addressed to progress in a post-Covid world.
  • “I could have halted lockdown but for Hancock’s lies” – In TCW, Simon Dolan reflects on the legal action he took against Government in 2020 in a failed effort to stop lockdowns.
  • “New Covid booster ‘challenge’ raised as obese population will need jab ‘more frequently’” – Not content to let Covid fade away, this advice comes from experts from the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, who found that the protection given by Covid jabs wanes faster with a higher body mass index (BMI), according to the Express.
  • “Scots back nuclear power to help meet Net Zero targets” – According to a poll, most people living in Scotland favour introducing new nuclear power to help in the nation’s journey to Net Zero, reports the Times.
  • “Watch: Extinction Rebellion interrupt Suella Braverman during speech” – A protester posing as a conference delegate stood up and started shouting over Braverman, the Home Secretary, seconds into her remarks, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Nationwide offers £15,000 interest-free loans – to a select few green-minded borrowers” – Offer comes amid growing pressure on Government and businesses to help tackle emissions, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Energy bills will fall in six weeks, Shapps predicts” – The Energy Secretary acknowledged that while wholesale prices were returning to ‘normal’ levels, households had yet to see that reflected in their bills, according to the Times.
  • “Uber wants all cabs electric in two years” – Uber plans to make London its first all-electric city by the end of 2025, according to the Times.
  • “Megaphone-wielding Just Stop Oil zealot travelled hundreds of miles from Scotland to stage slow-march in London” – Ruth Lanser was one of 25 fanatics causing mayhem in the capital and has now come under fire after journeying some 400 miles to join two slow marches, reports MailOnline.
  • “Now Keir Starmer warns Londoners they risk lung cancer unless they accept Sadiq Khan’s hated ULEZ expansion” – The Labour leader gave his full backing to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial plan to widen ULEZ to the whole of the capital from late August, reports MailOnline.
  • “Let’s stop pretending the culture wars aren’t real” – Many of us live in material and financial fear of what might happen if we make public what we think, writes Patrick West in the Spectator.
  • “DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programmes at Florida public colleges” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation to defund diversity, equity and inclusion programmes at all state universities, calling them a “distraction from the core mission”, according to CNN.
  • “Moira Deeming and the death of Australian liberalism” – Now even the centre-Right Liberal Party is in thrall to extremist gender ideology, says Nick Cater in Spiked.
  • “Dave Chappelle torches San Francisco while performing there” – Comedian Dave Chappelle roasted San Francisco over the city’s rapid decline caused by electing woke local officials, reports the Daily Wire.
  • “Black Lives Matter activist is taken to court by British Film Institute over ‘missing £216,000 sponsorship money’” – Alisha Hall, 41, and her Hall Media Group Limited are subject of a winding-up petition launched by the BFI over the large sum it says is missing, reports MailOnline.
  • “Suella Braverman says white people should not feel ‘collective guilt’ over slavery as Home Secretary uses speech to challenge Rishi Sunak on immigration” – Braverman lashed out at people today being “blamed for things that happened before they were born”, according to MailOnline.
  • “I thought I was a liberal mother, then my daughter came out as trans” – In the Telegraph, one mother describes how her young daughter’s gender decisions are a wake-up call for families.
  • “Woke children’s TV show sparks outrage as it introduces new non-binary character” – A children’s TV show has sparked outrage after it introduced a new non-binary character, according to GB News.
  • “DeSantis rips student attacks on Riley Gaines: ‘They should be expelled’” – Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted the students at San Francisco State University and Stanford Law School who shouted down and attacked speakers on their campus, reports the Washington Examiner.
  • “University of Melbourne lecturer targeted by trans activists after attending Let Women Speak rally” – Feminist Professor Holly Lawford-Smith has spoken out about a months-long campaign by trans rights activists encouraging students to boycott her classes, reports Sky New Australia.
  • “Why are we in Ukraine?” – Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne discuss the dangers of American hubris in Harper’s Magazine.
  • “Bud, hold my beer” – A Miller Lite advert that aired in March has gone viral in the wake of the backlash against competitor Bud Light after it teamed up with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The Miller Lite commercial claims that “from Mesopotamia to the middle ages to colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing” and admonishes the modern beer industry for featuring bikini-clad women in adverts.

Looks like Miller Lite has jumped into the woke beer game pic.twitter.com/D87zHCbprT

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 15, 2023

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago

    The time has come the walrus said, to speak of many things! Like shoes and ships and sealing wax unexplained excess mortality and vaccines and things!

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    AethelredTheReadier
    AethelredTheReadier
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Dinger64

    Of why the sea is boiling not and cabbage scarcities and fake kings…

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    ebygum
    ebygum
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Dinger64

    ..interesting ‘vaccines things’ from Scotland….

    @TheRustler83

    ‘COVID’ deaths in Scotland by occupation, 2020 – 2022
    #Police
    0 (zero) deaths from 17,000 staff
    #Doctors & #Nurses
    0 (zero) deaths from 150,000 staff
    #Teachers
    0 (zero) deaths from 52,000 staff
    #Retail
    0 (zero) deaths 245,000
    #CareWorkers
    5 deaths from 120,000 staff
    We have a few stone heads questioning the validity of these Scottish stats

    The data comes from the Scottish Government’s official statistics agency. Irrefutable source

    In the working age population (20-65) just 1,754 Covid deaths were recorded…only 287 solely from Covid….

    https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/scottish-foi-zero-covid-deaths-in-working-age-populations-most-in-contact-with-the-public

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago

    If God made anything more lovely than a woman, he must have kept it for himself!

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Dinger64

    I take it that the downticker is more lovely than anything ever created?!!

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    Freddy Boy
    Freddy Boy
    1 year ago

    The Miller Lite thingy ! It’s a Spoof surely ?

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    NeilParkin
    NeilParkin
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Freddy Boy

    Who could have seen what happened at BudLight and thought, ‘Yes, thats what we’ll do. Tell them what to think and show them our higher moral standards…’

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    NeilParkin
    NeilParkin
    1 year ago

    Energy bills will fall in six weeks, Shapps predicts”

    It didn’t take them six weeks to put prices up…

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    TheGreenAcres
    TheGreenAcres
    1 year ago
    Reply to  NeilParkin

    Wholesale gas prices fall in mid-summer? Next he’ll be telling us that bears defecate in the woods!

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago
    Reply to  NeilParkin

    Up like a rocket, down like a feather!

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    NeilParkin
    NeilParkin
    1 year ago

    “Now Keir Starmer warns Londoners they risk lung cancer unless they accept Sadiq Khan’s hated ULEZ expansion” 

    This is a disgusting line for Starmer to take. First we were killing Grandma, now each other from driving those horrible vans and trucks that make modern life possible. Shame on him, and shame on his kind. These ‘bstards wont be happy till we’re taxed for breathing…

    Last edited 1 year ago by NeilParkin
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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago
    Reply to  NeilParkin

    If the levels recently tested at street level are carcinogenic (evidence?) the levels in tube concourses, platforms snd in the tube trains. These latter measurements were three, four and ten times the recommended maximum.

    As the political class bends the knee to WHO one wonders why they allow anyone to travel on Khan’s tube system. How long before we can join class actions against TfL and force it into bankruptcy.

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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago
    Reply to  EppingBlogger

    Not sure what happened to my subsequent edit. I was referring to particulates and emphasised how much more serious the effects must be inside the tube system.

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    Hester
    Hester
    1 year ago

    Why have Miller decided to join those who wish to create division? sure turn girly pictures into compost, good for them, but use it to promote beer sales to what is largely a male based consumer!, and why discriminate in favour of one type of picture? if its about creating compost why not just ask for people to donate all pictures they dont want so that the brewer can be really virtuous by becoming a compost maker. But its not about producing compost, its not even about selling beer, its about causing division between men and women,

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago

    “Farewell questions for Rochelle Walensky”

    Interesting to see that El Gato Malo has had to drop the ridiculous none use of capital letters in order to be published in Brownstone.

    Bloody poseur.

    Last edited 1 year ago by huxleypiggles
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    ebygum
    ebygum
    1 year ago

    interesting article in Zero Hedge by Colleen Huber (via the Epoch Times, which is behind a paywall) luckily this is not….

    Colossal Failure Around The World
    Let’s summarise what we now know of the negative efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, and why vaccinated people—not the unvaxxed—suffer frequent bouts of COVID-19.
    The COVID-19 vaccines—and the new bivalents, of which they are a part—are alarmingly and irredeemably unsafe, as well as ineffective for the advertised purposes. It is increasingly recognized by laypeople, physicians, and scientists throughout the world that the COVID-19 vaccines are neither safe, nor effective, nor reversible.

    In this article, I show irrefutable proof that the COVID-19 vaccines are irredeemably ineffective. (See many dozens of my other Substack articles, and my book, “Neither Safe Nor Effective,” on how dangerous these vaccines are.)

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/colossal-failure-around-world

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/energy-bills-will-fall-in-six-weeks-shapps-predicts-qmd6pfn5b

    Except that fuel bills will NOT return to “normal” levels because they are always going to be artificially high as long as the billions in subsidies continue to be paid over to those running the ‘unreliables’ scam.

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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago
    Reply to  huxleypiggles

    Schapps just wants to be seen in the MSM. When his prediction does not come about he will have a second chance when, as a modern Conservative, he will demand price and profits caps on the energy companies.

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago

    Sweden win eurovision!
    Eagle eyed viewers noticed Loreen was still wearing her performance microphone as if she knew she would need it again! The only one to “forget” she had it on! Double micking isn’t a done thing!
    Why would it be fixed for Sweden to win?
    Goodness only knows!🤔

    (ABBA announce they will reform to sing Waterloo at the opening of eurovision 2024 if Sweden win!)

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    TheGreenAcres
    TheGreenAcres
    1 year ago

    I am moving house next month into a new build. As some of you may recall the Government made it mandatory for all new builds to come with a wallbox for charging EV’s. So I asked the agent what the spec was, thinking that they come as either 7kw or 3.5kw.

    It turns out it’s 2kw, so basically a three pin plug but mounted on the wall. So to charge a mid-sized EV from 20 to 80% you are looking at ~15hrs and a full charge 24hrs+. What a pointless waste of time!

    Not that I was thinking of getting one mind you> My employer does have a leasing scheme and they even give you £1,500 towards your leccy but even with that I wouldn’t have one.

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago
    Reply to  TheGreenAcres

    Wow, we all live and learn thanks to people like you and this platform!

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    TheGreenAcres
    TheGreenAcres
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Dinger64

    I’m hoping my wallbox has a nice flat top so maybe I can turn it into a flower pot or something useful.

    On a serious note it’s typical Government meddling. They mandate something without properly considering what kind of specification is needed to actually make it useful (generation 1 smart meters anyone!). So obviously most housebuilders will do the bare minimum.

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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago
    Reply to  TheGreenAcres

    Hard for them to mandate dockets which the local mains supply won’t support.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  TheGreenAcres

    “My employer does have a leasing scheme and they even give you £1,500 towards your leccy but even with that I wouldn’t have one.”

    We were offered that. It costs the employer nothing – paid for by HMG i.e. taxpayers. A subsidy for people rich enough to afford new electric cars.

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago

    “Scots back nuclear power to help meet Net Zero targets”

    Such things cost billions! How is Scotland going to pay for this? Oh yes, Britain 🇬🇧!

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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Dinger64

    England!

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago
    Reply to  EppingBlogger

    😀👍

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    ebygum
    ebygum
    1 year ago

    Morning all…been away so sorry if I missed this and it’s a repeat…

    Interesting article I think, because the Spectator, more often than not, usually aligns with the Government’s current ‘war propaganda’…so unusual to step away from the mainstream?

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-economic-war-against-russia-has-failed/
    Why the economic war against Russia has failed

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    Chris P
    Chris P
    1 year ago

    The BBC are inviting people too ill to work to contact them with their stories. I wonder whether they will be contacted by people unable to work because they have been injured by the COVID ‘vaccine’?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65596283

    At least they acknowledge damaging effects resulting from lockdowns might be a contributory factor.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Chris P

    Just the BBC pursuing their socialist agenda.

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    Monro
    Monro
    1 year ago

    ‘Why are we in Ukraine?’

    We are not in Ukraine.

    That is a dreadful article hell bent on further eroding the pitiful conventional deterrence of European countries. I will not call them powers.

    In stark clarity, there are more members of NATO now than in 1949 because of the threat.

    We know Putin plans to combine Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova in a new ‘Union State’ by 2030.

    Looking at a map, it is clear that Russia will then move on the Baltic States to set up a new iron curtain from Kaliningrad to Moldova.

    Why, otherwise, would Finland and Sweden give up their longstanding neutrality?

    To suggest that that is ‘NATO expansionism’ is worse than silly. It is plain idiocy.

    Why is Poland spending billions on 1250 modern main battle tanks?

    Hands up the clever clogs who thinks Poland is going to march on Moscow?

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/myers-versus-bridgen-round-2/

    Fraser Myers is still digging. He’s going to regret taking on Andrew Bridgen.

    Go on Myers you dim-witted bully. Marvellous.

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    ebygum
    ebygum
    1 year ago

    ….and the crazy continues…?? What the hell are they testing a perfectly fit person for..and when he was winning?🤡

    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/remco-evenepoel-out-of-giro-ditalia-following-positive-covid-test

    Remco Evenepoel has left the Giro d’Italia following a positive Covid test on Sunday evening. The Soudal Quick-Step rider was in the pink jersey after Sunday’s stage nine time trial, but will now be replaced by Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), who is now in the virtual race lead.
    The world champion regained the maglia rosa after winning the race against the clock in Cessna on Sunday by one second over Thomas, but that is immaterial now, after he tested positive for Covid later that evening.
    He tested positive for the virus in a test which was taken by the team, not mandated by the race organisers

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago

    Apparently w.h.o are now our new gods and Gabreyeysus is our new dictator General!

    https://youtu.be/qXdO_7J1Lx8

    Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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