- “J&J’s Covid vaccine taken by 19 million Americans is pulled by FDA” – The Food and Drug Administration has revoked authorisation of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid vaccine, the Mail reports.
- “Why Rishi Sunak fears the Covid inquiry” – The Spectator’s Katy Balls explains why the Prime Minister might be reluctant to hand too much over to the Covid inquiry.
- “Alina Chan and Matt Ridley: The lab leak hypothesis” – Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag are joined by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley on the Public podcast to discuss the origin of COVID-19 and what may be the biggest cover up in history.
- “Why did USAID fund the Wuhan lab?” – Writing in UnHerd, Ashley Rindsberg takes a deep dive into USAID’s funding for risky research in a Chinese lab.
- “Is it time for Britain to leave the WHO?” – An explainer on everything that is wrong with the World Health Organisation, courtesy of Christopher Snowdon in the Spectator.
- “Is the plan to impose a public health technocracy faltering?” – Some cautious optimism about the WHO treaty from Wesley J. Smith in the National Review.
- “Google to clamp down on staff who work from home” – The tech giant is going to include office attendance as part of employees’ performance reviews, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Met Office ‘extreme team’ preparing for the U.K.’s drastically changing weather” – The Telegraph reports that the U.K.’s top meteorologists have formed a crack squad to save us from ourselves.
- “Caroline Lucas standing down as MP to focus on climate change” – Caroline Lucas has said she is not going to stand at the next election, the Telegraph reports, because her constituency work is getting in the way of her tackling climate change.
- “Good riddance to Caroline Lucas” – “The departing Green MP embodies everything that’s rotten about environmentalism,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Justin Trudeau says wildfires were caused by climate change” – Trudeau says that the fires are entirely the fault of climate change, but Canadian officials have for years been warned that better forest management is needed, the Mail reports.
- “Putting the awful Eastern U.S. wildfire smoke in perspective” – Andy Revkin points out that tens of millions worldwide suffer from pollution levels far worse than those in Manhattan right now.
- “Do hawks care about gay rights?” – Noah Carl considers the motivations lying behind the pro-gay stance of America’s foreign policy elites.
- “On Section 230 and Instagram’s child pornography problem” – “The White House and social media companies care more about censoring views they don’t like than the facilitation of child porn – and rape – on their platforms,” says Alex Berenson, highlighting a Wall Street Journal exposé on the paedophile networks that run through Instagram.
- “The kids aren’t ‘trans’ – they just don’t want to grow up” –Mary Wakefield, writing in the Spectator, offers an explanation for the unstoppable rise in the numbers of young people who call themselves trans: “The whole phenomenon is (amongst other things) a desperate desire to remain childlike.”
- “Oxfam’s vile ‘TERF’ video typifies the charity’s disrespect for women” – “The TERF video is not some mistake or aberration,” writes Laura Dodsworth in CapX, “it emerged from the same wellspring of sanctimonious absurdity that characterises Oxfam’s every move in this area.”
- “The inversion of history” – Douglas Murray bemoans the latest “efforts to dismantle, problemetise and indeed disappear our history” in his latest column for the Spectator.
- “Cut immigration now, before it’s too late” – Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch, calls on readers of TCW: Defending Freedom to support a campaign in favour of reducing migration to less than 100,000 a year.
- “The trouble with returning the Benin Bronzes” – Robert Tombs explains in the Spectator why the history of the Benin Bronzes is somewhat more complicated than the directors of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology realised when it decided to return them to Nigeria.
- “I’ll never throw out my DVD player – the woke police can’t delete my box sets” – The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon celebrates the great joy of a DVD collection that, unlike streaming services, cannot be censored.
- “Social conservatism in U.S. highest in about a decade” – 38% of Americans say they are conservative on social issues, according to this Gallup poll, up from 33% who said the same last year.
- “Big Pharma has bizarrely never been this untouchable” – Independent journalist Rav Aurora joins Ben Shapiro to discuss how media outlets suppressed his stories about Covid mandates and vaccine side effects.
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Enough of this, already. Warm weather is easy to handle. Light clothes, find some shade, get a drink. Its cold weather that kills the vulnerable.
Quite. Lashing northerly wind and 12 chilly degrees here in the West Country at the moment, and even the Al-Jazeera weatherwoman noted that it’s been the coldest June so far in parts of Northern Europe. 30 degrees? – bring it on.
Yes; we’re near Frome in NE Somerset. I walk our dog early every morning, 6.30am to 7am. Normally at this time of year, I’d be in shorts and a t-shirt. And indeed, by 11 am I am. But the mornings have been bitter, and I walk in a fleece, jeans and my (Man City) bobble hat.
Climate change? This I would say is the oddest weather I have witnessed in my 71 years. And it’s been happening all June. Oh – May. Usually I clean up the woodburner at the end of April, ready for the annual visit of the sweep (a Man City fan as well ;->). This May, there were maybe a couple of evenings when I did NOT light the burner.
Amazing what CO2 can do innit…
“The extreme team” is all that’s extreme about this horse excrement extreme!
What a bunch of t₩@ts!
Who sits about thinking this scat up?
Neil Postman hypothesised about the disappearance of childhood. He argued that a person young in years was only a child if they were separated from the adult world.
If a child stands in front of a class of fellow pupils and announces that they are trans, they gain a notoriety as one of the badged and uniformed vanguard of the new conformity. Whatever colour stripe represents you, you cannot not be in the flag. Am I just a stripe in someone else’s flag?
One of the key lessons I learned from my schooldays was ‘Don’t stand out at school’. Now we encourage the kids, not just trans, but ‘mental health’, and a bunch of other victim hoods.
BTW, I’m not a stripe in the ‘Inclusivity’ flag. There is no colour for heterosexuals. No stripe and no parade.
I recently spoke to neighbour who is a member of the senior management team in a secondary school nearby. We were discussing how to teach reproductive biology in these modern times and how to deal with children who state they are trans. She said that teachers have had no training the New Ways and most of them use common sense – if they have it.
She said there are children who change their gender on a regular basis and also change their name and pronouns – this being attention seeking. One child comes into school with their name of the day on a lanyard. She asked the child what name to put on their report card and the child said to use their ‘normal’ name as the parents didn’t know about the different names/trans business. All of this takes up valuable time that could be spent on more important things like teaching…
Some innovative business could make a fortune on a variation of the ‘day’ of the week socks. A set of ‘gender of the day’ socks could be produced and the afflicted masses could hotfoot to buy them to allay any confusion. I ‘spect they will also have to be labelled right and left to avoid putting on the wrong foot…
“The trouble with returning the Benin Bronzes”
Left wingers fail to see other side of the consequences of doing things. What a surprise. Why is it that the lefties always come up with these plans, seemingly with the absolute certainty that it will all go as they thought and give then the outcome they expected. There is not an ounce of contrary thinking goes into anything…
More evidence they want us dead. This time Australian elderly folk. Sadly a different sort of ”pandemic” killed them. Conclusion;
”Earlier epidemiological evidence that COVID injections reduce illness and death
is now methodologically invalidated, and the claim that the injections are beneficial for the
vulnerable is refuted. The injections explain the mystery of significant numbers of non-COVID
excess deaths. The Australian pandemic is shown to be iatrogenic particularly for the elderly,
who have suffered disproportionate harm. Deliberately ignoring this clear evidence is
tantamount to iatrogenic geronticide.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371342838_Simpson's_Paradox_in_the_correlations_between_excess_mortality_and_COVID-19_injections_a_case_study_of_iatrogenic_pandemic_for_elderly
Unforgivably, the chemical junk was / is injected into children too.
The evidence keeps coming out Mogs. If this wasn’t so appalling and tragic ” self-satisfied grin” would be appropriate.
Re:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12174791/J-Js-COVID-vaccine-taken-19-MILLION-Americans-pulled-FDA-plummeting-demand.html
‘…millions of Americans frustrated by the fact that a shot does not guarantee immunity from the virus but rather protects against severe illness,…’
Why do they persist in the sheer, utter nonsense that any of the scamdemic jabs protect against severe illness?
Since when have the regulating agencies been concerned about the safeguarding and promotion of good health?
The removal of the EUA of the J&J concoction is another step to elevate the use of the the highly questionable mRNA platform in unwarranted jabs in the future.
I suspect there is a vat of festering e-coli media bubbling away in a lab somewhere, ready for the odious mRNA to be added, in readiness to protect the masses against severe illness from the next manufactured ‘virus’.
The world is desperate for a proper pandemic. A pandemic that confers herd immunity against psy-ops and such like and instils or reawakens common sense on those afflicted, without the use of ‘protecting jabs’. Roll on…
Elsewhere in the article above it says:
Devastating?
Your reference to Humpty Dumpty is indeed apposite – and relevant to lots of other things that have been marketed at us recently.
…they just can’t tell the truth…and they’ll always be able to find someone willing to twist the facts..has the Pharma industry ever held the power it seems to do now?
This is a good thread if you are on Twitter …and I’m sure it will be picked up by others..(and ripped to shreds….)
@TheChiefNerd
New:..CDC-Funded AAP Study led by Kaiser Permanente Finds “No Serious Side Effects in Young Children” from mRNA COVID Vaccines
Let’s look at the study design, data and conflicts of interest…
The study does not compare Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed. It compares Vaxxed in days 0-21 (Test Group) to Vaxxed in days 22-42 (Control group). More serious AE’s in the Vaxxed 22-42 Day Control Group than in the Vaxxed 0-21 Day Test Group, is the measure of a safety signal. Seizures had an additional ‘prespecified’ risk interval of 0-7 days.
Seizures: In days 0-21, 61 seizures occurred post-vaccination. In days 22-42, 43 seizures occurred post-vaccination. In total, 104 seizures occurred post-vaccination.
However, in the additional ‘prespecified’ risk interval of 0-7 days, ‘only’ 14 seizures occurred post-vaccination vs 43 in the control group. Therefore the study concludes there is no safety signal.
Study author Dr. Donahue has received funding and grants in the past from large vaccine manufacturers including Janssen, Merck, GSK, and Sanofi.
What do you think of this study…..?
“What do you think of this study…..?”
One, just ONE seizure in children forced to take these poisons is enough to condemn it as not safe and indeed inherently DANGEROUS.
That there was no control group….
Utter research fraud with the design & results purposely rigged to achieve the already decided upon outcome.
“nonsense that any of the scamdemic jabs protect against severe illness?”
And the evidence for something which cannot be proven is where?
When I told a consultant who unsuccessfully tried to persuade me to be jabbed, that if I was to do this I would prefer that of J&J (not mrna and only one injection) his response was that J&J was really only intended for the third world
Re:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/06/08/good-riddance-to-caroline-lucas/
There are a lot of MPs not standing for re-election, citing various reasons.
IMO, the main reason is they fear reaping what they sowed in the covid debacle. They are attempting to distance themselves from their conduct and support of the brusque removal of rights, freedoms and their almost unanimous support of the distasteful claptrap associated with the covid / pandemic cesspool.
Cowards. Retreating cowards who are forever tainted.
We will not forget or forgive.
Seconded.
For those who don’t have Twitter..this link should work..
Tucker Carlson..Episode 2….
I hope he keeps this up…..
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/06/tucker-carlson-episode-2.html
Thanks.
I cancelled my TV licence years ago and have been building up a DVD collection ever since. HMV shops in particular have a great range of classic comedy and drama series. I’ve also bought a back-up DVD player from Argos just in case for £20.
Friday night will be an episode of Lovejoy followed by Ever Decreasing Circles. Corny I know but it’s stress free entertainment in a pretty horrible world.
I love Ever Decreasing Circles, so does Ricky Gervais, he has it in his top ten TV sitcoms:
https://www.rickygervais.com/uncut.php
““The kids aren’t ‘trans’ – they just don’t want to grow up””
On this matter, this interview with American writer and philosopher, Matthew Crawford, is well worth reading.
The basic conjecture is this. And I agree. We – each human – until recently, adapted to the world and the people around them, to make us fit in and to make reality work. Now – and this they show is rampant in Gen Z, but started with the Millennials, young people demand that the world adapts to their needs and feelings.
As of course, this is impossible – reality cannot be discarded just like that – immense and horrifying societal conflict has taken place.
And will get worse.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/upheaval-interview-matthew-b-crawford
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/06/08/good-riddance-to-caroline-lucas/
Or to put this in plain English:
Caroline Lucas is not standing at the next election because she has been offered an even better paid sinecure somewhere else. Probably funded by Billy.
“Is it time for Britain to leave the WHO?”
Yes, big time!
I’m just going to leave this here.
I mentioned this ages ago, how Biden looks really different to younger pics of himself, and I’m obviously not alone in my thinking! LOL This is a good 30sec example. But I think he’s just got one of those faces that change drastically with age. I think Putin is similar in that regard. Look at younger pics of Putin and, to me anyway, he’s almost unrecognisable now. Bizarre..
https://rumble.com/vfb8hl-two-bidens-will-the-real-joe-biden-please-stand-up.html
Very strange indeed Mogs.
Ear lobe attachment doesn’t change with age, which is why the film focusses on it. Look back at all the pics of you from childhood until now – yes we age but ear lobe attachment remains the same throughout.
“Caroline Lucas standing down as MP to focus on climate change”
So, give up on your constituents and local problems to try and change things on a global scale instead?
What a mammary gland!
Oxfam’s vile TERF video
I’m on a fairly low income, but was happy to have a small direct debit with Oxfam to help people in the developing world who are less fortunate than me. Having found out what my money was helping to fund I’ve just cancelled it and will be looking for a different charity to support, one that genuinely helps people rather than wasting money on pointless, or in this case hateful and damaging, woke virtue signalling. I’m going to enjoy telling Oxfam exactly what I think of them and why I’ll no longer be supporting them, shame I can’t get a refund of the hundreds of pounds I’ve given them over the years.
Good for you. Personally I would keep cash donations to small local charities.
Donating to large national charities is simply secondary taxation for the gullible.