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by Will Jones
19 June 2022 1:14 AM

  • “Is monkeypox racist?” – The WHO has decided to change the name of the disease because it’s “discriminatory and stigmatising”. But how, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
  • “Brutal lockdown proves final straw for the middle classes fleeing Shanghai” – Wealthy locals and foreigners are leaving the city not for economic benefit, but rather out of concern for their lives, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Covid vaccine research in Israel: no troubling questions please” – Professor Eyal Shahar takes a closer look at Israeli death data and suspects the full story isn’t being told.
  • “The total lack of any safety data provides no reassurance whatsoever about use of mRNA vaccines during pregnancy” – Steve Kirsch wonders why we haven’t heard about how the pregnancies turned out in “Preliminary Findings of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons”, published over a year ago.
  • “Mattias Desmet and the Psychology of Totalitarianism“– Watch Mattias Desmet, a mass formation psychology expert, explain on the Highwire the building blocks of mass formation, the threat it poses, and how to break it.
  • “Fact Check: Covid as a Leading Cause of Death in Children” – COVID-19 in Georgia points out that a key study cited by the FDA in its justification for infant Covid vaccines was a flawed pre-print which overcounted Covid deaths in two ways and presented the findings misleadingly.
  • “Take the pain, says Gove, who caused it” – Now that Gove, lockdown fanatic-in-chief, has had his wicked way with Government policy we have runaway inflation, writes Laura Perrins in TCW Defending Freedom.
  • “At the Military Olympics, October 2019, Wuhan, China, Athletes Caught Covid” – That so many U.S. military personnel became sick at a locked-down Wuhan event in October 2019 raises questions about the timeline, the source of the virus, who knew what and when, and how a possible attempt to suppress the truth might have contributed to the spreading of a brutal policy the world over, writes Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone.
  • “How effective are Covid vaccines, really?” – A balanced and thorough look at the international data from the Swiss Doctor.
  • “Boston Study Finds SARS-CoV-2 Spike Persists with Long Covid” – TrialSite News reports on a study which found circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in the majority of Long Covid patients but none in the COVID-19 cohort, supporting the hypothesis that “a reservoir of active virus persists in the body”.
  • “Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomised Trials” – A study revisits the original trial data and concludes that the risks of the vaccines outweighs the benefits: “The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalisation relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials”.
  • “A war that neither side dare lose” – The stakes are existential for both Ukraine and Russia, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
  • “Norway threatens to abandon £4.5bn North Sea oilfield over windfall tax” – Rishi Sunak’s profit raid on oil giants pushes Equinor to reconsider drilling plans near the Shetland Islands, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The Dark Age of YouTube. Youtuber Act Man Has Channel Nuked for Embarrassing YouTube and Defending Creators.” – YouTube would rather destroy its creators than keep the platform safe, says Peter Pischke on the Happy Warrior.
  • “Left wing America is destroying itself” – Democrat-run cities are rotting, but the people responsible for this calamity are taking over the party, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
  • “Blackpool Illuminations to remove ‘racist’ display” – Native Americans wrote to the council condemning the decades-old tableau for reinforcing “racial stereotypes”, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Ofsted cites lack of gender identity lessons as factor in primary school grading” – Analysis of pre-Covid inspections by the Telegraph shows that teaching about gender issues played a part in determining schools’ final grades.
  • “NHS management review hijacked by ‘wholesale wokery’” – The Telegraph reports that the report into making the health service efficient has been attacked by Lord Lilley, the trade secretary under Margaret Thatcher and Sir John Major, for focusing more on ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ and less on patients’ needs.
  • “University dons slap trigger warning on 15th century St George text” – University dons have slapped a trigger warning on the story of England’s patron saint as the legend could supposedly prove upsetting and offensive to today’s university students, reports the Mail.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Is monkeypox racist?” – The WHO has decided to change the name of the disease because it’s “discriminatory and stigmatising”. But how, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.

Of course it’s racist. Bally “monkeys to man” Darwinists…

Jabberjabberjabberjabber

prcdebbie reynolds monkey honeymoon at DuckDuckGo

“And the monkey gay at the break of day”.

Oops, that’s probably something too!

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Brutal lockdown proves final straw for the middle classes fleeing Shanghai” – Wealthy locals and foreigners are leaving the city not for economic benefit, but rather out of concern for their lives, reports the Telegraph.

The CCP have been ruining Hong Kong, and now Shanghai. Do you really think the CCP will hit their 2049 targets? Really? Maybe they’ve been too clever by half this time, even if they do play go.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Covid vaccine research in Israel: no troubling questions please” – Professor Eyal Shahar takes a closer look at Israeli death data as suspects the full story isn’t being told.

“The CBS table contains one more interesting line: data for the two years of the pandemic. They estimate 10,527 excess deaths between March 2020 and April 2022”.

Interesting. I seem to recall that Sweden reported slightly below excess mortality from January 2020 to June 2021 (about the time young adults would have started getting these “vaccines”). I wonder what is really going on…

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “The total lack of any safety data provides no reassurance whatsoever about use of mRNA vaccines during pregnancy” – Steve Kirsch wonders why we haven’t heard about how the pregnancies turned out in “Preliminary Findings of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons”, published over a year ago.

Yes. Neil Oliver (GB News) was talking tonight about how unborn children have suffered long term damage from the stress caused by lockdowns to their mothers (doubtless not a headline for Times muppets)
The obvious answer (to why we don’t hear these sort of things) – too many callous greedy crooks about. Do you have another answer? Bring back the Birkenhead drill!

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Fact Check: Covid as a Leading Cause of Death in Children” – COVID-19 in Georgia points out that a key study cited by the FDA in its justification for infant Covid vaccines was a flawed pre-print which overcounted Covid deaths in two ways and presented the findings misleadingly.

“In the CDC ACIP meeting on June 17 to discuss childhood Covid vaccines, a table was presented showing Covid was a leading cause of death in US children as part of a slide deck on the epidemiology of Covid-19 in children and adolescents by Dr. Katherine Fleming-Dutra. The source was a pre-print written by a group of academics from the UK, including Dr. Deepti Gurdasani, who is well-known on Twitter for her strong views on Covid. I later learned that a very similar slide was also presented at the beginning of the FDA VRBPAC meeting earlier in the week.
The slide was shared on Twitter by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina (“Your Local Epidemiologist”), and retweeted by many influential people including Jerome Adams, Julia Raifman, and Gregg Gonsalves. Only problem? It’s completely and utterly false. The pre-print it’s based on includes significant errors that invalidate the results. And the slide makes additional errors on top of the pre-print. It’s really disturbing that data this poor made it’s way into the meetings to discuss childhood Covid, and that it took me less that a few minutes to find a major flaw (and then I found many more as I looked deeper). I contacted the study’s corresponding author, Dr. Seth Flaxman, but his only response so far was to tell me he’d get back to me on Monday.”

You know, the CDC/FDA (that are in bed with big pharma) really do need to do their own research (and I don’t mean a dodgy pre-print to try and give cover for what they’ve already decided).

How many more children have to die because of these crooks?

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago

‘Britons braced for 11 per cent inflation’ according to yesterday’s Times headline. (TCW)

Bally Times muppets should maybe have tried to do their own cost-benefit analysis in March 2020 which might have warned us of this…

Oh, and too bad that Guv didn’t learn the lesson of his home city, to be canny with money (“13 injured in taxi crash”…).

“Interests rates have to be increased” – to all of 1.75%*, so they are robbing my savings at 9.25% annualised. Robbing government villains

“Lockdown nutters”.

Not half. Never again! Maybe talk to some people you have worked with at the Spectator, Mr’ Johnson?

*Sorry, 1.25% and therefore 9.75% annualised robbery. The “USA” I think was 1.75%…

“‘I think it is an unavoidable consequence of the central bank policies the UK and others have had to follow.”

How do you know you had to follow when you didn’t do a cost-benefit analysis? Crook.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Norway threatens to abandon £4.5bn North Sea oilfield over windfall tax” – Rishi Sunak’s profit raid on oil giants pushes Equinor to reconsider drilling plans near the Shetland Islands, reports the Telegraph.

But it’s not Shetland’s oil, it’s Scotland’s oil. The nasty nats (who are in coalition with the Scottish Green Party) said so.

And why are the “not the Conservative party” pursuing wealth destroying policies? I know, but I want to hear it from them.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Left wing America is destroying itself” – Democrat-run cities are rotting, but the people responsible for this calamity are taking over the party, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.

“Democrats” were responsible for New Orleans weren’t they? I forget now who they blamed. I wonder how many more cities they will destroy (no don’t reply if you’re in the “USA”, they’ll have you for a terrorist…).

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Blackpool Illuminations to remove ‘racist’ display” – Native Americans wrote to the council condemning the decades-old tableau for reinforcing “racial stereotypes”, according to the Telegraph.

In a similar vein, perhaps we can give territories in the “USA” that were more or less stolen from the natives (and yes, I dare say there’s another account) their proper names?

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Ofsted cites lack of gender identity lessons as factor in primary school grading” – Analysis of pre-Covid inspections by the Telegraph shows that teaching about gender issues played a part in determining schools’ final grades.

Yes, I seem to remember that a school in Market Rasen was penalised for not having enough “coloured” (“BAME”) children (and a similar story with a sports club in Northwich.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “University dons slap trigger warning on 15th century St George text” – University dons have slapped a trigger warning on the story of England’s patron saint as the legend could supposedly prove upsetting and offensive to today’s university students, reports the Mail.

Give St. George in my heart keep me English (trigger trigger trigger).

Goodness, I’ll probably be banned now, even from here… (Blimey, the snowflakes should have seen those Glasgow comedy clubs (and football clubs) in the 1980s!).

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Monro
Monro
2 years ago

‘It seems that the West’s support for Ukraine only goes so far – enough to prevent Russia from achieving a military victory but not enough to ensure that it repels Russian invaders from all Ukrainian territory. Whatever happens in the coming months, Western governments will continue to be extremely careful not to cross a line that would lead to war.’

General Lord Richards stated the other day that the West lacked a strategy regarding the invasion of Ukraine.

I’m not so sure that it does. The above quote seems to me to set out the West’s strategy. It is known as the ‘do nothing option’

And we have form.

After the debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have perhaps understood that we are not welcome in other people’s countries. Neo imperialism, neo colonialism, is anathema as China will also come to understand, one way or the other (bribery will only get them so far).

Syria, Libya and now Ukraine indicate a new Western strategy of detachment similar to that brief period between the end of the Vietnam war and the successful intervention in the Falklands.

The West, led by ambitious, self serving, politicians, then wilfully took forward the wrong lessons from the Falklands and the 1991 operation to liberate Kuwait.

Chiefs of the Defence Staff, their careers already at their zenith, must, henceforth, be prepared to sacrifice themselves on the altar of mission creep.

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The old bat
The old bat
2 years ago

I am triggered by the words ‘trigger warning’. How do some people manage to live a normal life at all, if they spend their lives being concerned that something may cause them a moment of mental upset or discomfort? If people spend their lives studiously avoiding distressing things or words they must lack backbone and fortitude, surely? Life can deal a rubbish hand sometimes, most people will, at some point, have to deal with unpleasant things like, for example, sickness and death. What are they going to do then? Slap a metaphorical trigger warning on a loved ones coffin and refuse to deal with it?
‘Trigger warnings’ are a ridiculous indulgence. Life can be very cruel. Get used to it and deal with it.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

I agree.

Why don’t MS newsrags carry trigger warnings:

“may cause raised blood pressure in members of the anti woke community.”

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Nobody2022
Nobody2022
2 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Here’s the logic:

If there’s no trigger warning and somebody gets triggered they can lose their minds about it.

If there’s a warning and they get triggered they can just shrug it off.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Good Afternoon fellow travellers…..

Recorded Data
@DataRecorded
·Jun 16

Serious adverse reaction according to the EMA
“reaction that results in death, is life-threatening, requires hospitalisation or prolongation of existing hospitalisation, results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, or is a birth defect.”
https://ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/serious-adverse-reaction.
In little over 6 months 2022, the European Medicines Agency has recorded 1,420 SERIOUS adverse events in the 3-11 year old age group after the #Pfizer shot

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

US VAERS- Deaths and Injuries in Children (5-17 yrs only) Following A Covid-19 Injection -10th June …..Deaths 114
Permanent Disability 460
Myocarditis 1,333
In addition in this age group there have been:
49,748 reports issued and disclosed of injury or death
615 life threatening reactions
3,937 hospitalisations
8,859 children who have not recovered from their injuries
Only 1-10% of deaths and injuries are reported.
These are the short term reactions, long term impact of these injections is unknown
Link:https://openvaers.com/covid-data/child-summaries

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Although this study seems to say that semen ‘motility’ recovers…shouldn’t it be studied further? It seems quite worrying to me….

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/andr.13209
Covid-19 vaccination BNT162b2 temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count among semen donors

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Nobody2022
Nobody2022
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

I’ve noticed motility reduces with age. Don’t ask me how I know.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

This is someone I have only recently become aware of…like a UK Bill Gates…..?!

Hedge Fund billionaire Sir Chris Hohn’s foundation (CFF) Children’s Investment Fund Foundation spends more on climate lobbying that all 4 major UK parties spend in a year in total.

Guess whose climate policies we are following?

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

I think someone mentioned this yesterday, but well worth getting a cuppa and having a listen…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAydAhgBZIc
“Discussing WHO pandemic preparedness treaty with ex UN Assistant Sec-Gen Professor Ramesh Thakur
17 Jun 2022 Fascinating discussion with ex UN Assistant Secretary General and Senior Adviser to Kofi Annan, Professor Thakur. He provides a no holds barred assessment of the WHO COVID-19 response and the dangers of transferring more powers and budget to WHO in Geneva.”

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10930389/Number-people-sick-leave-hits-2-54million-nearly-fifth-pandemic.html
We’re too sick to work’: Number of people on sick leave hits 2.54million – up almost a fifth from before the pandemic
…they mention long covid, but guess what they don’t mention?? LOL!

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The old bat
The old bat
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Also I wonder how many of these people are in jobs that have generous sick leave entitlements, and how many are employed by the NHS?

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

…LOL! Yep I suspect people who work in supermarkets or are self employed are much less likely to ‘suffer’…!

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Government can’t have it both ways. Their former Health Minister- the liar and cheat Matt Hancock – said that Britons should stop “soldiering on” by going to work when sick and making others ill.

He said people in the UK were “peculiarly unusual and outliers” for still going to work when unwell.

He followed this advice by saying people should act as if they’ve got the ‘virus’ 🙄

A veritable golden ticket for the regular work shy to have even more time off work.

As I didn’t have the virus, I did wonder if I should forage in the hallway cupboard for my old crutches I had when I broke my foot and ‘act’ as if I’d broken my foot again 🙄…

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

r Clare Craig (not one of her impersonators)
@ClareCraigPath
FDA estimate 34 ICU admissions for myocarditis for every 1 million vaccinated 5-11 yr old.

JCVI estimate 1 covid ICU admisssion prevented for every 2 million vaccinated 5-11 yr old.

Are the paediatric ICUs ready for what’s coming?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.farminguk.com/news/land-to-be-devalued-for-compulsory-purchase-warns-body_60588.html

How interesting.

Doesn’t this sort of activity have another name?

Stealing I think it used to be known as.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

“Inflation in the farming industry has also soared to levels not seen in decades, with inflation now standing at 30.6%.”

And food prices to rise by 15% – not sure how that works.

From FARMINGuk.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/06/18/monkeypox-racist/

is monkeypox racist? If so, what about chickenpox?

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Nobody2022
Nobody2022
2 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Pandemic logic

I never wanted lockdowns/school closures/mandates etc

I only wanted them until…They weren’t needed

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Nobody2022
Nobody2022
2 years ago
Reply to  Nobody2022

Apologies, that wasn’t meant to be a reply to the previous post.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
2 years ago

Steve Kirsch points out that the daughter of a U.S. Congressmen very possibly died from the vaccines. This vaccinated 17-year-old died unexpectedly in her sleep.

Kirsch makes clear what most of his readers seem to know. Even this Congressman – who just lost his precious daughter because of these shots – won’t hold anyone responsible for her death. Secretly, he must be holding himself responsible, but he lacks the courage to admit he was wrong and go after the real murderers.

This is the type story that if it was highlighted might change the narrative. It might save some lives.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/us-congressman-sean-castin-is-responsible

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