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by Richard Eldred
5 August 2023 1:07 AM

  • “De-banked NatWest customers left without answers in wake of Farage scandal” – NatWest customers have been left without answers as to why their accounts were shut down, as the firm struggles to process a mountain of data requests in the wake of the Coutts de-banking scandal, says the Telegraph.
  • “Children offered £1,500 to take part in new Covid vaccine trial” – COVID-19 vaccine trials for healthy children are about to get underway in Bradford and several other parts of the U.K., writes Dr. Ros Jones in TCW.
  • “The Covid Inquiry will never admit it but we had a strong plan” – In the Mail, Professor Robert Dingwall says Britain had a perfectly good pandemic plan, but abandoned it for something much worse.
  • “The Covid Inquiry’s ‘listening’ exercise is biased” – Baroness Hallett’s hearing is treating some pandemic stories as more equal than others, writes Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
  • “Governor Kawakatsu: Jabs for thee but not for me” – Heita Kawakatsu, the Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan, openly admits he hasn’t had the Covid vaccine, in spite of strongly recommending it to his constituents. At least he’s being honest, says Guy Gin.
  • “The true cost of Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion for struggling families” – To avoid the £12.50 daily fee for driving in London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone, diesel cars must have been registered after 2015, and most petrol cars after 2005, reports the Mail.
  • “Cathedral-goers fume at 710% parking hike under eco policy” – Critics have accused Winchester City Council of carrying out a “raid on motorists’ pockets” by hiking prices to an “insane” level, says the Mail.
  • “Greenpeace’s easy access to the Sunak home should be a serious wake-up call” – There will have been more nefarious actors closely observing the invasion of Rishi Sunak’s family home after Greenpeace’s stunt, according to Ian Acheson in CapX.
  • “Rishi Sunak’s popularity surges as he toughens Net Zero stance” – The Prime Minister’s support among Conservative voters rises after he orders review into LTNs and declares he is on the side of motorists, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Net Zero’s dam has burst, but the BBC is still papering over the cracks” – For decades, the Beeb’s climate coverage has been shamelessly one-sided, presenting highly politicised theory as irrefutable fact, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph. But it cannot continue.
  • “The climate scaremongers: Wind farm operators start backing out as they get cold feet over costs” – It’s common knowledge that offshore wind is far from reliable. Now, hopes that it would at least be cheap are fading into the distance like a desert mirage, says Paul Homewood in TCW.
  • “Is Sadiq Khan trying to make London’s schools more dangerous?” – Sadiq Khan’s decision to appoint Maureen McKenna to London’s Violence Reduction Unit is a ghastly goof, writes Tom Bennett in the Spectator.
  • “DEI initiatives in academic publishing pave the way for differential treatment based on race” – Some major academic journals are requesting personal information about race and ethnicity when an author submits a paper or accepts an invitation to review a paper, says Dr. Amber Muhinyi.
  • “America’s racial politics has no place in British schools” – Primary schools are teaching Critical Race Theory as fact, warns Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
  • “Weed by weed, woke capitalism must be rooted out” – Fair-minded and reasonable people must resist the sinister takeover of the corporate sector by wokesters, says Rupert Lowe in the Telegraph.
  • “Are the Greens more interested in trans rights than saving the planet?” – Those who fail to toe the line on gender risk being given the boot from the Green Party. But shouldn’t they be focusing on climate change instead, asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
  • “Transgender ideology has created the biggest medical scandal of our generation” – Vulnerable young people who transitioned before they were ready are paying a high price, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
  • “How the Lia Thomas scandal could save women’s sports” – The sight of a hulking great man winning a women’s swimming trophy has exposed the insanity of trans ideology, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
  • “Conservative donors: Wake up!” – Right-leaning philanthropists need to think more strategically and stop bestowing massive gifts on Harvard, of all places, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
  • “U.S. intelligence has been manipulating Wikipedia for over a decade” – According to ZeroHedge, the co-founder of Wikipedia has revealed his long-standing suspicion that U.S. intelligence agencies are interfering in the world’s most famous online encyclopaedia.
  • “‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ plead guilty to money laundering” – A husband and wife whose eccentricities and alleged crimes earned them the moniker ‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’, have pleaded guilty to a $4.5 billion money-laundering scheme linked to the crypto exchange Bitfinex, reports CNN.
  • “Tate insists he did ‘nothing wrong’ following house arrest release” – Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have persuaded a judge to release them from house arrest, reports the Mail. But they must remain in Romania.
  • “UFO whistleblower David Grusch tells BBC the U.S. has craft and bodies” – Intelligence officer David Grusch tells BBC Radio 4 that secret “extraterrestrial” technology has been shared by the U.S. with its allies, including the U.K., reports the Daily Star.
  • “Has anybody ever tried those paper straws? They’re not working so good” – A stone cold genius has taken some clips of Trump complaining about paper straws and turned them into the beginning of a Seinfeld episode.

Whoever made this is a genius. 😂😂😂

Trump talking about straws like the beginning of a Seinfeld episode… pic.twitter.com/qdLCI4Bw8W

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 3, 2023

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Sinor
Sinor
2 years ago

Brilliant headline ….thats going to confuse some people or promote the “mask a la chin”look for the convinced..

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Sinor

I hope they feel badly misled by our authorities.

One of the biggest problems in our society is that we’ve lost our suspicion of authority. It urgently needs to be restored.

We need a majority of people whose starting point is that anyone in authority is probably lying to them and needs to demonstrate otherwise, not the other way around.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

Tvoc’s are also deadly to the environment, especially the marine environment! So when all these things find their way into the water courses as many do, God help the fish!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

I think it’s mainly the US being assaulted with this BS atm. No sign of anyone displaying signs of being ‘MK Ultra’d’ round my way yet anyways. At least the muppets are easy to spot and give a wide berth though. I just avoid anyone who has a fanny pad or bra cup strapped to their mush. I think jockstrap versions are also available.🧟‍♂️👀🤦‍♀️

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Check out this nifty little 30sec video. Do you think this is enough to vindicate that judge in Germany who was sent down for 2 years for protecting the rights of children and not behaving like a complete Nazi?

https://twitter.com/TheSocrateej/status/1691137859485573120

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Love these vids!

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I can immediately make up an argument against that: If viruses are that small, cloth mask fibres are like concretewalls compared to them and will stop a real lot from getting past and every virion that’s stopped reduces the risk of infection! If in doubt, do it like Trish and wear underpants over your head! A little protection is still a lot better than no protection!

That’s obviously nonsense but true believers won’t accept that.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Yes I’ve mentioned this before, it’s like throwing pingpong balls at a builders scaffolding, just to get a sense of the scale!

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Or mosquitoes and chain-link fences.

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Shimpling Chadacre
Shimpling Chadacre
2 years ago

Anyone dumb, gullible and cowardly enough to wear a mask to protect them from viral infection deserves everything they get.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Shimpling Chadacre

What we should make a point of doing is approaching them and asking how many Covid jabs they’ve had, then stand and wait for the penny not to drop…🤯🙈

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You might have a long wait! These people are idiots.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Shimpling Chadacre

For a hundred years or more we have known…

Medical masks were never intended to protect the wearer, nor designed so they could. Their use is specific to prevention of cross infection of open wounds from resident disease causing bacteria in the nasopharynx of medical staff which might be carried in droplets exhaled by them during surgical procedures. Such infection is direct person to person in near contact, since the droplets do not become airborne and soon fall to ground.

They can also protect immune compromised people from droplet infection by bacteria from others.

They cannot protect against viral infection as these are spread in the form of aerosols, not droplets, exhaled into the air (medical masks, bits of cloth cannot prevent this) which circulate in the air and can linger for hours. These airborne viral aerosols are then inhaled (masks that are not air-tight, cannot prevent this), and the level of infection depends on the viral load in the air and duration breathing it in.

Similarly the amount of airborne virus in an environment depends on how many infectious people have visited it, and the duration of their stay.

Open environments… outdoors… it is very difficult to be infected unless an individual is in close, face to face, prolonged or intimate contact.

Summary: if you can breath out, you can spread a respiratory virus;if you can breath in you can catch it.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

There is then the question: can you actually find a virus in the air? No one has yet overcome the challenge BTW. It is a supposition only.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Shimpling Chadacre

Natural selection, basically.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

“He cites a number of studies showing masks make little or no difference in reducing the spread of Covid”

Why, especially now that everyone has had “it” probably several times, and that everyone has been “vaccinated”, is “reducing the spread of Covid” an important or desirable goal? What exactly do people mean when they say “reducing the spread of Covid”? If such a thing were possible, what does it achieve? It makes absolutely no sense to me. Let’s say you wear masks for a few months and it “works” – then you stop wearing masks and everybody who “avoided” being “infected with Covid” will then promptly “get it”, will they not?
It’s fine up to a point to talk about masks being harmful or “not working” but I think you have to question the base assumption. Let’s say that a mask could be made that 100% stops you getting Covid and is absolutely not harmful to your physical health. Would you wear it? Would it be desirable to make people wear them? Logically you would have to make people wear them forever. The whole thing is founded on muddle headed thinking.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It’s purely so they can test the waters to see the public’s levels of compliance. That’s why no amount of scientific study or any sort of logic is remotely useful. There’s a mountain of this now and the masktard Nazis just over-ride it all anyway, same as with all things jab-related. Facts don’t matter when you have the next phase of the totalitarian plan to progress to. What you want to glean is an indication of just how effective your intensive PsyOp has been on the masses before you move things up a notch. That’s why this season’s new look is such a hit with those who enjoy the prospect of sleepwalking into tyranny and feel thinking independently is over-rated;

https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1696067132029571132/photo/1

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Certainly those with an evil agenda know very well that there is no science or logic behind it. But my point is that even sceptical journalists mention “reducing the spread of covid” as if it were a meaningful or desirable outcome, and I think that’s very dangerous for the reasons stated. The start and end point should be “there was no pandemic, no public health emergency, covid if it exists is mild for most, we must live with it, and any notion of reducing its spread is simply plain silly”.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

So true. They are testing the waters to see how far we will let them so. So we must “nip it in the bud” and DO NOT COMPLY from the start!

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
2 years ago
Reply to  True Spirit of America Party

See https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c for a full analysis of “virology”. It is shocking.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Words and definitions matter. There are no vaccines for respiratory virus according to the proper definition of vaccine. There was no pandemic in the proper context of the meaning of that word.

Disease can spread, but not ‘be’ spread. It is the disease-causing pathogen that can ‘be’ spread.

Vaccines – effective ones – can only protect the person vaccinated, they provide no protection to anyone unvaccinated.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

Totally agree.

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago

Having never owned a mask of any sort, I’ll sleep soundly tonight.

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sskinner
sskinner
2 years ago

“A study from South Korea has found that N95 masks can release harmful chemicals at levels eight times higher than safety guidelines suggest.”
No S***T Sherlock.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago

A mask is a medical device, a medical intervention, for which one must give fully informed consent & mask guidelines in the Health & Safety legislation state that an individual risk Any assessment has to be carried out before one can wear one.
Anyone who is insisting that you wear one – in a shop, in a medical setting – can be challenged by asking for their name & for an individualised risk assessment to be arranged by an appropriately qualified occupational health practitioner. Tell them that they will be personally liable for any harms incurred by wearing said mask without following the H&S legislation.
Folk will back down when they are being made personally liable. They go along with the crowd, no way do they want to stand out from the crowd when they have nowhere to hide.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

The N95 is so called because it is claimed it can stop 95% of particles 3microns and above – the size of exhaled water droplets – and their integrity decreases with time, so that after about 10 minutes of wear, they become moist from exhaled breath which facilitates the transit of pathogens through the fabric in either direction to either surface.

Any safety device which is not 100% effective all the time is not a safety device, it’s a hope and prayer, a talisman, a superstition.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

I agree but in this context it is being used as a medical device, therefore it has to be consented to be worn & that consent needs to be fully informed otherwise it is not valid consent & any harms arising from its use are accountable to a named individual who has coerced its use.

It’s a sign of compliance & the useful idiots who are involved in the coercion have been fully programmed by the narrative & know not what they do.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

It gets better than that: Popular masks aren’t usually N95 masks, they’re labelled KN95. That’s because they’re a Chinese imitation of US N95 masks (EU FFP2) produced without quality control. At least in Germany, it’s illegal to use KN95 masks in healthcare setting instead of N95/FFP2 masks. But that’s not widely known among the general public.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Indeed, the KN95 is a cheap Chinese knockoff of the real N95s.

Last edited 2 years ago by True Spirit of America Party
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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

But a virus particle is though to be about 100 nanometres or smaller (strangely no one has an electron micrograph of Covid) so an N95 mask is also useless. You see, there is no end to the lies.

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zebedee
zebedee
2 years ago

Were any actual N95 masks tested or just KN95 masks? My understanding was that KN95 was a marketing designation (Kounterfeit N95?) and had no actual efficacy claims though I’m willing to be disabused.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  zebedee

The KN95 is a cheap Chinese knockoff of the real N95s.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.globalresearch.ca/mask-cult-back-pandemic-propaganda/5830335

A proper carve up of the mask nonsense.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

What a surprise. So many people were stupid enough just to do what they were told to do, rather than thinking it through, although to be fair there was dearth of proper independent advice for a long time.

What does not appear to be mentioned though is the actual environment within which the measurements were done. It should be well known by those concerned that the air content is a major factor. E.g. the humidity levels, what the ventilation is like, is there any treatment for recycled air (in air con systems), and a long list of things that can be done to modify it. Things like Ultra Violet C sterilisation can be done, e.g. Ultimately, if they say nothing about it at all, are their results of any use?

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Arum
Arum
2 years ago

‘The sample with the highest amount of TVOCs had 4,808 cubic meters per microgram’ ?!?

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Wow. If this does not herald the permanent end of masks, there is really no hope for our species. Homo sapiens are really not as sapient as they claim to be.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Masks are clearly an IQ test. Those who still wear them have failed, lol.

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JohnnyDollar
JohnnyDollar
2 years ago

Nothing about the masks was true . I feel sorry for those who wore it & even more for those who are still wearing it

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