- “When lack of safety equals safety” – A new FDA study claims to show Covid vaccines are safe for children even though the study shows significant increase in serious heart conditions for child recipients. Norman Fenton investigates.
- “Twitter pulls out of voluntary EU disinformation code” – “You can run but you can’t hide,” commissioner Thierry Breton warns Twitter after Elon Musk says he will no longer comply with the EU’s misinformation and disinformation rules, reports the BBC. But are they voluntary or mandatory?
- “Protesters say they will refuse to pay £12 a day when Ulez expands” – There is growing anger among Londoners with several of the newly-installed cameras enforcing the proposed Ulez expansion being vandalised, says the Mail.
- “Bill Gates-Funded AI Chatbots Promoted Covid Vaccines” – Igor Chudov reports on how Bill Gates-funded chatbots boosted the Covid vaccines.
- “‘Liberal’ thought police echo Salem witch trials” – Hadley Freeman in the the Times asks why the woke opponents of gender critical feminists are so unscrupulous about attributing sins to their opponents that they’re entirely innocent of.
- “Kathleen Stock: ‘No matter what I say, to trans people I’ll always be a villain’” – The professor who lost her job in a gender row cried on the floor when insults were hurled at her – but refuses to give in to the bullies and will speak at the Oxford Union tomorrow, she tells the Telegraph.
- “Correction: Transgender Surgery Provides No Mental Health Benefit” – The American Journal of Psychiatry has issued a major correction to the Bränström study seeming to show that “gender-affirming hormone treatment” and “gender-affirming surgery” reduced the need of transgender-identifying people for mental health services.
- “Journalists and the elephant in the room” – Why have so many legacy media companies become mouthpieces for corporate interests, asks Helgi Viggosson.
- “NORD STREAM UPDATE: Spiegel, after running multiple stories blaming the Nord Stream attack on ‘Russian ships’, reverses course and points the finger once again at Ukraine” – Der Spiegel, after running multiple stories claiming “Russian ships” were implicated in the Nord Stream attacks of September 26th, has now done a reverse ferret, reports Eugyppius.
- “How Covid turned flagship NHS ‘super trust’ into worst in the country” – A combination of diseconomies of scale and Manchester’s unique health challenges have turned a dream merger between two health trusts into a nightmare, says the Telegraph.
- “BLM leader Patrisse Cullors secretly dumped from Warner Bros TV deal” – Warner Bros has secretly let the BLM leader’s deal lapse after she failed to come up with a single idea, reports the New York Post.
- “Former Civil Servant Anna Thomas tells Andrew Doyle about her victory over the DWP” – Anna Thomas, the DWP Civil Servant fired after raising whistleblowing concerns about the politicisation of her department, secured a £100,000 payout thanks to the Free Speech Union, she tells Andrew Doyle on GB News.
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I remember seeing this Romanian MEP with a handful of others denouncing the covid lunacy when it was in full swing and drawing hope from their actions.
And then I saw the zero impact it had and my eyes opened even wider to the total farce that is our system, the EU and the joke we call democracy in the west.
It works if rulers act with restraint, but when they don’t and they bulldoze over everything and everyone to impose their own policies you realise our freedom and democracy is in the gift of our rulers.
It’d nice that this MEP denounces what many of us see, but in terms of effect, it could be him, me or Bugs Bumny saying it. It will move the dial exactly zero degrees.
Pessimist!
Realist
I’m still glad he is saying it – someone has to, and he has the guts to do it. I believe it is having an effect because it can’t only be here that Terhes and his group are re tweeted and cited.
Thank God for his like.
Let them. All good people with rational things to say and who have a desire for freedom speak face-to-face anyway. The control freaks are unwittingly forcing the creation of the alternative world they so fear.
Optimist!
Being optimistic is exactly what they don’t want us to be. Love always wins. Value and encourage individual interactions. It’s the only way to beat the Borg.
That’s why they closed the pubs down during the Covid lunacy. They couldn’t possibly have people discussing the lunacy and concluding that it was unjustified and completely moronic.
Yes..it’s truly Orwellian, Well I’m not joining in, neither should you, and if enough of us don’t it won’t work……how are they going to ban, or correct, or stop millions of us?
They can say anything they fricken want..it doesn’t make it true or feasible…just like I’m never having the jag, and I’m never eating ze bugs!!!?
I’m aware that in my lifetime that real fascism and communism has been overturned..and I suspect it’s just the little things..the people who just don’t go along..
the little acts of rebellion…and at least now we also have more ways to communicate than ever before no matter how hard they try to stop it….…some other ‘platform’ will pop-up….
…it really bothers them, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop it if it didn’t…
David and Goliath
David won that battle I recall.
Controlling information through intimidation and explicit controls saps government credibility and makes rumors spread more readily, thus creating ever more work for busy censors. Media Control in China, He Qinglian.
He Qinglian’s censorial officedates back to Tang times.
The Chief Censor is responsible for making Chinese media a consistently reliable source of information so, in case of an epidemic or a war, everyone can trust what they’re being told.
Chinese media provided consistently reliable Covid information so everyone followed it and only 80,000 of them died – even though only 7% of them were ever locked down. They also kept the economy turning over nicely during the drama: GDP grew 14% in those three years.
With no trustworthy information sources, we Wessies split up, got lost in thickets of misinformation, and 1.2 million didn’t make it.
Friends fall down laughing when I tell them that the current dynasty has never lied nor failed to keep a promise (though so far none has claimed the prize of $100/occurrence).
Here’s a funny thing: when I tell Chinese friends that I’ve never found the government lying or welching on a promise they look at me oddly.
Eventually they say something like, “But, um, why would the government lie to us? What do they have to gain? What’s the point?”.
It’s a different world. We must destroy it without delay.
“In 2023, Canadians reported an all-time low trust level of 40%.
Additionally, trust in English speaking Canada was much lower (37%) than in French Canada (49%).
Additionally, the report found that attitudes towards publicly-funded outlets like the CBC “are more negative.” ”
True North report
The don’t care about disinformation. They want to stop unapproved information.
You cannot take the Fascist and Communist tendencies out of the EU “Elite.” They know nothing else. It’s what and who they are.
Yes spawned from Nazi Germany
“Cristian Terhes, a Romanian MP and Member of the European Parliament,” At least one member has a modicum of common sense. That’s one more than I thought possible!
Unless people on mass say this. ——“I have an education and I own a dictionary and I will choose my own words and thoughts”, then freedom is gone, if it isn’t already. ———–I want a million people to stand with that placard in their hands outside every government building in Europe. We need to STOP this tyranny now or it is the Fourth Reich.
If there is some infallible person or people making the decisions about what is the ‘truth’, please refer me to them.
I would like to meet them.