- “Italy to end ban on health workers not vaccinated against Covid” – Reuters reports that Italian doctors and nurses suspended from work because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will soon be reinstated, new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said on Friday.
- “China’s Zero-Covid policy has enabled Xi Jinping to consolidate supreme power” – The Communist party boss has once again locked down the people of Wuhan whilst remaining secretive about how the virus first spread, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Rising non-Covid excess deaths reveal the disastrous legacy of the pandemic” – Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph reports that “experts believe higher deaths from heart complaints and diabetes mean the indirect effects of the pandemic will be greater than Covid itself”.
- “U.K. set for low Covid cases this Christmas as winter wave has already peaked” – The Telegraph reports on the modelling of UCL’s Professor Karl Friston, who suggests infections may start to rise significantly in January. This is despite the fact that in each of the last two winters, after the autumn wave has come a winter one that ends in January.
- “Dr. Peter McCullough is being progressively stripped of his medical credentials” – “Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most respected doctors in the world, has been a beacon of light throughout this pandemic,” writes Steve Kirsch. “His reward for speaking the truth? He’s being stripped of his credentials.”
- “Dr. Philip McMillan cancelled by LinkedIn” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson writes that Dr. Philip McMillan, “one of the most important researchers in the field of COVID-19 and the collection of symptoms called Long-Covid”, has now been deplatformed by LinkedIn.
- “Rishi Sunak will deny King Charles his trip to Cop27 in Egypt” – The Times reports that Rishi Sunak is upholding Liz Truss’s decision to stop King Charles attending the COP27 climate conference, despite the monarch “champing at the bit” to go.
- “Nicola Sturgeon slyly changes Holyrood record after lying about renewables” – The First Minister has been caught up in another misinformation storm after claiming Scotland’s energy consumption is covered fully by renewable energy sources which is not true, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
- “Electric car owners may face taxes within three years” – A Whitehall source told the Telegraph it is now inevitable that electric vehicles will be subject to road tax “at some point”.
- “Why Just Stop Oil is so wrong about fossil fuels” – The eco-zealots’ childish demands are a recipe for disaster, says Andy Mayer in Spiked.
- “Just Stop! Furious Met police chief hits out at Just Stop Oil eco-zealots saying their 29 days of action in London has cost 7,900 shifts that could have been used to beat knife crime and solve burglaries” – The Metropolitan Police has blasted Just Stop Oil who are engaged in a month-long protest across the capital, accusing them of tying up officers who should be out beating knife crime and solving burglaries, reports the Mail.
- “What’s wrong with being an apocalypse denier?” – Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator says that eco activists are mistaken: the world isn’t about to end.
- “Now is no time for complacency. We’re still facing defeat in the woke war” – Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph says while there have been some promising signs, there is a “very long way to go in the battle for common sense”.
- “Rishi Sunak to stamp out ‘woke’ policing” – Ministers are “studying the example of a no-nonsense chief who overhauled the failing Greater Manchester Police”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s first ‘black university’ does not have permission to use official university title” – Britain’s first “black university”, which includes a course on “burning s*** down”, does not have permission to use an official university title, it has emerged, the Telegraph reports.
- “Cambridge University students set to receive free speech training” – The new project led by Professor Arif Ahmed has been initiated to counter an increasingly prevalent ‘cancel culture’ on campus, reports the Telegraph.
- “Cambridge alumni pulling funding from college after academics said gender speaker was ‘hateful’” – Cambridge University alumni are pulling funding from their college in an intensifying row over the master announcing she was boycotting a “hateful” gender-critical speaker, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pelosi Attack Suspect Was A Psychotic Homeless Addict Estranged From His Paedophile Lover and Their Children” – Michael Shellenberger writes that Berkeley resident David DePape was more in the grip of drug-induced psychosis than ideology-induced fanaticism – and was known to neighbours as radically Left-wing.
- “Elon Musk: ‘Anyone suspended for minor and dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail’” – Reclaim the Net reports Musk’s first comments on account reinstatements, content moderation, and shadowbanning since buying the platform, though details remain unclear.
- “The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime” – “The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated,” writes Glenn Greenwald. It is facilitated by ‘fact-checkers’, “funded by a consortium of a small handful of neoliberal billionaires (George Soros and Pierre Omidyar) along with U.S., British and EU intelligence agencies”.
- “The growing threat of financial censorship” – Freddie Attenborough writes in the Critic that the IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, revealed that the UN’s major financial agency doesn’t like people using cash and wants to “change that preference”.
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Herr Krankie establishes Scotland as the world’s most miserable nation to live in.
Except for the virus of course which apparently enjoys nightclubs! Oh come on – this really is becoming too absurd for words.
Name and shame Sturgeon’s bodyguards. Who are they?
Here’s one:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nicola-sturgeons-former-bodyguards-career-20997354
She’s just very concerned with hygiene…
Merkel’s family crossed to the evil side of the Berlin wall.
Celtleiter Krankie is trying to rebuild east Germany on her side of her new Hadrian’s wall.
What is it with female politicians nowadays? Are they easiest to marionette?
I hope not. There’s a substantial part of England between Hadrians Wall at Wallsend and Berwick.
It’s called Northumberland.
I was aware.
She’s trying to turn the whole of Scotland into a Darien Scheme.
Something they may regret at the ballot box.
Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in South Africa | medRxiv
Try posting it on YT and it gets deleted.
The scammers must be scared by facts.
YT censorship is both sinister and crazy, but I suppose their rationale for suppressing this is that the article states at the top “This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.“
It will be interesting to see whether it is possible to post it when it has been peer-reviewed; always presuming that the peer reviewers don’t go for a spot of “orders from above” censorship themselves. Facts, truths and knowledge are dangerous things in our new Pre-Enlightenment times.
Night-time curfews next Sturgeon? The Scots need to start uprising against the tinpot dictator.
Imagine waking up to that mare in the morning.. I’d rather be hung drawn and quartered..
Queen Nicola.
Nicola Sturgeon COVID-19 Briefing
Nicola: The first question is from Jimmy.
Jimmy: In hospital when COVID patients deteriorate, where do they send them?
Nicola: ICU Jimmy.
Hung drawn and sixteenth! How the Scots put up with her is beyond me. Deserving better should definitely be on their Christmas list.
So correct me if I’m wrong but….
Vaccines are safe and EFFECTIVE?
The good slaves took their booster?
They have vaccine passport access only for nightclubs?
Then they closed the nightclubs anyway ?!?!?!?
Macaroni did exactly the same in France.. entry by health-pass only.. then close them down because.. the dreaded oh-my-god-ecrom has infiltrated the air ducts..
They’re already done with coercing nightclub-goers to get their experimental jabs. There is no need to maintain that particular coercion any longer.
‘National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said the decision to close nightclubs took account of typically younger crowds who may not be vaccinated.
Speaking to the BBC’s Lunchtime Live programme, he said: “The thing that really scares us about this [variant] is its attack rate. That’s why you can hear our tone and our fear rising a little.’
What a prick
They are making it up as they go along
The ‘attack rate’ from the globalist reset mongers and their apparatchiks is pretty fearful too.
So what happens when it ‘attacks’ younger crowds? Ah yes, they get the sniffles for a few days. Clearly it’s worth fucking up the economy even more in order to try (and fail, as always) to achieve that.
As you say, what a prick.
Nobody makes me reach for the mute button on the remote like the Leech does when he appears for his tax-payer funded lectures on TV. I barely even watch anything with ads these days, but when I do, there’s the blood-sucking parasite. He obviously loves his place in the spotlight telling people what to do, and will be very slow to slither back into the relative obscurity that is more fitting for a man of his talents.
Jason would love to hear from you!
jason.leitch@gov.scot
https://www.gov.scot/about/how-government-is-run/directorates/healthcare-quality-and-improvement/jason-leitch/
https://contactout.com/Jason-Leitch-3630032
jleitch@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
leitch@bigfoot.com
You do know he is a dentist I suppose.
Prick is such a good description for these assorted ‘knobs’..
PravdaThe BBC currently have a very telling headline “Half of colds will be Covid, warn UK researchers”, which is very revealing in the truth that Covid, and in particular moronic, is a common cold.Certainly not worth reading : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59768366
Great news. 50% of those with a cold will actually have the C1984. That will push community immunity along nicely.
Some of these “researchers” need to engage brain before putting out gems like this.
Jason Leitch National Clinical Director
There is no Omicron, Delta, Alpha and indeed no pandemic. There is just the normal colds and flu that circulate every winter. Some people get it bad and it turns to pneumonia. The old and vulnerable can die from it. Its been happening since the dawn of time, yet now they have decided to utilise this regular event to implement long-planned social, political and economic changes we would never, under normal circumstances, accept.
Great post, and as you say there is no pandemic.. there never has been one. I’m going to keep posting this chart because really important that as many people see it as possible..
And that spike for 2020 is debatable too. Likely attributable to government actions.
That’s about it in a nutshell.
Sorry, no sympathy.
The Scots voted for wee Nickie, they have to live with it.
And the English voted for Bozo, so they have to live with that.
The passports worked well then.
We need to build back with better passports. Ones that are injected under the skin, close to the heart. If someone has Covid (or is naughty), then they either get injected on the spot and die or their digital money from their account is removed as punishment. And they die.
rtaylor,
Just recently a Swedish tech company got several thousand volunteers to allow a ‘little grain of rice’ be inserted in the back of their hands.
It is attacking device linked to their bank accounts, national health details, a passport to attend designated events etc.
What’s not to like.
Coming to a cinema near you soon.
A Tracking – but maybe attacking was better!
Ah, but they hadn’t been signed off by the virus!
the nightclub owners should test it in a court of law with real scientific evidence
Available at Moonpig and before anyone asks, I am not on commission!
That’s what they voted for, and therefore they should get exactly what they voted for good and hard.
And who do we think will be paying to support this nonsense!
Les Anglais, je pense…
Mais oui
So the vaccine passes didn’t work then?
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
That piece of wisdom comes from Narcotics Anonymous, who obviously know what they are talking about. When such insanity becomes massified, we have a very serious problem.
Tunisian news (important)
1) Vaccine passports (given upon double vaccination) became obligatory in Tunisia yesterday (22 December) for
2) Given that only about half of the population has been double-vaccinated, either
a) this is not going to work, or
b) the government will have to put the army on the streets.
3) There is some confusion over whether “public spaces” include supermarkets and banks.
4) Amnesty International has called on the Tunisian government to suspend the vaccine pass. Amnesty say it threatens many people’s means of subsistence. For once, Amnesty are absolutely right.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/12/tunisia-must-halt-covid-vaccine-pass/
Statement by Amnesty International
Sounds dire. A very informative and rather chilling post. Thank you. It’s certainly about time that Amnesty got off the fence. But it’s not just Tunisia, it’s countries like Slovenia and Cyrus too that have draconian vaccine passport regulations. One might hope that Amnesty might get stuck in there too.
Quite. Where have they been for the past two years?
Totally missing in inaction!
The only NGO that seems to spoken out and mounted campaigns is Big Brother Watch, so kudos to them.
Working from home?
Amnesty I’m afraid is just another of those organisations, like human rights lawyers, who’ve been highly noticeable by their absence. A bit like Greenpeace.. now infiltrated by eco-zealots and trendy virtue signallers..
And in Gulag Wales too.
Isn’t Tunisia where the “Arab Spring” kicked off 10 years ago? Let’s hope it kicks off again, and spreads like Omicron (apparently) does
Thanks for posting.
Its a medical fact that viruses are much more clever these days – they can tell the difference between a packed nightclub full of clubbers and a packed supermarket full of shoppers.
Madness – complete and utter madness.
Ah.. its the ‘trolleys’ that give the game away..
Some supermarkets are bringing back the queues! Local M&S has today (they didn’t get any business from me as a result). FFS!
Yes, I turned around and walked out of an M&S when I saw the corral with a manned hand-scooshing station at the end.
You shop at Marks and Spencer? They strongly support Zionism.
I started boycotting them at the time of one of the Gaza massacres.
Did you know that Boris Johnson’s stepmother Jenny née Sieff belongs to the family that controls Marks and Spencer? She together with her “diplomat” friend Michael Comay arranged for him and his sister to “spend time travelling” in Israel when he was younger.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/boris-johnsons-sister-on-his-kibbutz-past-1.5421852
Jenny Sieff’s stepfather was Teddy Sieff, the chairman of Marks and Spencer and honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation who was famously shot by Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez (called “Carlos the Jackal” in the media – I bet Frederick Forsyth was pleased) in his home in St John’s Wood. (He survived.)
Downvoters – would you feel the same if a British high street retail company and the British prime minister had connections with the regime in North Korea or China and someone mentioned them?
But Israel is a democracy, by far the best in the Middle east surrounded by failed countries ruined by islam.
Yes.. lovely country.. tell that to those on the end of their bombs and bullets..
Enough about the islam infested areas…
I’d suggest you follow your handle and go and lockdown. Come out when you’ve a clear head..
“A democracy” – LOL. You can stand for election but not if you call for getting rid of ethnic supremacism, nor if you’ve been chased out of where you’re from by fascist settlers. But never mind the continual babyburning, because subject to those restrictions many are allowed to vote. Right. And “what about Syria and Saudi?” Great arguments you’ve got there.
Incidentally is it better for a British government minister to be a traitor working for a foreign “democracy” than if he were the property of a foreign “non-democracy”?
Haaretz, aka the Israeli Guardian.
Oh look Star.. -6 for that post. Let me guess.. its cos you entered the Z word.
It’s madness to think this is about a virus. This is about stripping freedoms and making a lot of money out of doing so.
Perhaps we should stop analysing spike proteins and spend more time examining the bank accounts of Whitty and Michie?
Not entirely related, but Efrat Fenigspn published an update from Israel on 16 December – https://rumble.com/vqwp0f-update-from-israel-efrat-fenigson-dec.-16th-2021.html?mref=viwjn&mc=40rwc
Key points made:
Article on the wrist-tags in Israel (let’s not call them “bracelets”) from March 2021:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9372765/The-options-returning-Israel-Isolate-hotel-wear-ELECTRONIC-BRACELET.html
Incredible and an insult to those who died in the Holocaust. I guess that yellow stars would be too obvious.
Israel, of all countries, ought to know where this road can lead and avoid it at all costs.
“People in Scotland have not been told to cancel their Christmas plans, but have been urged to stay at home as much as possible throughout the rest of the festive period”
Just what is wrong with the Scots? James Graham and his men trekked at lightning speed across the Highlands with just dried beef and whisky for sustenance, so they could smash Archibald Campbell’s army to bits. And now they are cowed before The Mighty Sturgeon?!
“a remarkable flanking march, during winter, across some of the toughest and wildest terrain in the British Isles, partly through snow knee-deep. The Royalists first travelled up the River Tarff to Glen Buck via Culachy, and across the gorge of the Calder Burn to reach the head of the glen, 1000 feet above sea level. They then climbed a further 1000 feet to Carn na Larach, before travelling down Glen Turret and Glen Roy to Keppoch, where the advance guard rested for around three hours in a barn while the main force caught up.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Inverlochy_(1645)
They’re all too busy transitioning or self identifying these days to think about fighting.
Nicola Sturgeon herself is still in the closet though. (This is not a joke – she has a fake marriage to the gay Peter Murrell who is the Partei’s chief executive. She really does pretend to be straight. In fact she is about as straight as a nine-bob note, the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, and an especially bendy DNA helix – all twisted into one.)
Krankie identifies as human but no-one believes that shite.
“Is Nicola Sturgeon’s marriage a sham?
That all depends if you believe the rumours or not. The rumour/ hearsay is that both she and her husband are gay and that she has a French girlfriend living in a house in Bridge of Allan. I believe she has denied these rumours but she does have a record of being economical with the truth.”
https://www.quora.com/Is-Nicola-Sturgeons-marriage-a-sham
I agree with Midget McKrankie. Close down evening premises. Especially those in their youth who may experience heart attacks in high energy, enclosed environments where alcohol is served alongside taurine based drinks.
If heart attacks for professional athletes are increasing at a rate of 8 standard deviations in the wrong direction from the clot shot, how will a demographic with bad health statistics and a wee drinking problem fare?
Note, McKrankie isn’t saving lives, just prolonging them for the 4th rooster booster. Follow-up sales et al.
Big headlines now about record number of ‘cases’, around 119,000 but a data processing issue means that the number of tests (obviously important when determining if positivity has increased) is underreported.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/metrics/doc/cumPCRTestsByPublishDate
I’m dreaming of a shite Xmas.
Breaking News
BBC News: Omicron up to 70% less likely to need hospital care
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59769969
I’m really glad that the lockdowns, masks, jabs, boosters, vaccine passes, social distancing, bubbles of six and self-isolating are working so well.
Freedom! aye right! You will notice that the narrative has shifted to speed of transmission and NHS staff shortages. No longer about the deathly threat because it’s not there.. Unfortunately getting dafty Tory Boy Ross or smarmy dentist Sarwar to land a glove on Sturgeon is like expecting Timmy Mallet to hurt Tyson Fury. Limelight Leitch whose voice can have the same effect on me of an old style dentists drill, is now absolutely gaslighting us. Why are young people who must have a vax pass not being allowed to throw some shapes FFS? It’s because Leitch the dentist of doom and a whole conference full of curtain-twitching public health zealots would like to shut down the leisure economy for large periods. Sturgeon never a fun person and Swinney (The Undertaker) whose grim visage and dull mid Scotland voice also causes me pain, would also like to stamp down on fun consumption. They have even issued an edict to shops so at my local M&S in the freezing sleet rain a Dayglo Darren stood watching a queue of about 50 or so perishing outside. Sadly until I lost it and demanded to see a manager the assembled fellow Scot’s gathered like Angus cattle waiting to be stunned. That said I think Sturgeon has overplayed her scare strategy this time. This leftist hopes the Tory dissidents don’t dissolve and Sunak doesn’t dish out more dosh to enable Sturgeon and Drakeford’s festive fear campaign.
Omicron is, apparently, markedly less severe than delta, including hospitalisation and tisk of death. What evidence based data we have suggests naturally acquired immunity is superior to any current vaccine. So why would anyone do their best to stop young, healthy people catch omicron in preference to vaccination? The vaccinated still catch covid and infect others. It seems perverse to me. It is deliberate and calculated… But for what?
There is no ‘Omicron’ – wake up people on here too! Everyone guessed a ‘variant’ was going to be wheeled out before Christmas, and so it came to pass.
Yet people on this site talk about ‘Omicron’ as if it is real. When you’re fooling yourselves, you’re doing SAGE’s work for them and they are sitting back in their chairs and laughing.
LBC is fakenews
https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/health/coronavirus/response-issued-after-claim-that-first-omicron-death-in-uk-happened-in-northampton-3501629
Response issued after claim that first Omicron death in UK happened in NorthamptonAn interviewee on national radio station LBC said his step-father died of Omicron at a Northampton hospital last week
Northampton General Hospital (NGH) has responded to a claim in the national press that the first Omicron death in the United Kingdom happened at the site last week.
This comes after LBC radio station had a man called John call in on Friday (December 17) saying that his step-father had died of the new variant at ‘a hospital in Northampton’.
John told radio host Nick Ferrari that his step-father in his 70s reportedly died with Omicron on Monday (December 13) after not being vaccinated.
Northampton General Hospital has said no one has died of Omicron despite rumours circulating in the national press
A spokesperson for NHS Northamptonshire CCG said: “The NHS system in Northamptonshire has not recorded an Omicron-related death at this time.”
“National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said the decision to close nightclubs took account of typically younger crowds who may not be vaccinated.”
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I thought you had to be jabbed to enter a night-club? If so, why will anyone not be ‘vaccinated’?
The First Dentist strikes again…
True – but the vaccine was never designed to stop people (young or old) from getting the virus and its variants or transmitting it – it was only ever designed to ease the symptoms should people develop symptoms. The most vaccinated places on earth like Gibraltar are completely shutting down due to high number of cases, cruise liners with vaccinated-only passengers and crew are experiencing high infection rates among the crew and the passengers regardless of the jabs, basketball games, American football games, Baseball League all of which have some of the highest vaccination rates in sport around the world are still cancelling games left-right and center because of high infection rates because the jabs do not stop the virus from spreading – these are just a few examples and there are many more examples of high vaccination rates doing absolutely nothing to stop the spread precisely because the vaccines were never designed to stop virus and variants from spreading – when you realise this then none of this shutting down of nightclubs makes any sense at all – its completely barmy when you realise that the jabbed are just as likely to carry and spread the virus as much as the unjabbed – so shutting down nightclubs will actually do nothing at all – zilch, nada, zero – why should the virus not spread in supermarkets or coffee shops or bingo halls, in family homes, in offices, in governmment buildings the list is absoluetly endless – they seem to be on an insane mission to defeat a virus – its madness – and when you factor in the fact that for most people out there who do get the virus and do get symptoms they will probably only experience nothing more than common cold-like symptoms for a few days it just makes every decision they make insane.Its as if they just want to get everyone jabbed and thats it – regardless of whether they stop the virus or not – everyone with a pulse must be jabbed
The world has gone completely doolally – people need to wake-up, rise up and if need be wipe out these tyrants and stop this insanity or else they are looking at a very grim future of tyranny justified by a culture averse to any risks and always putting safety above absolutely everything thing else – authoritarian safetyism.
They are carrying on the madness for one reason only.. to collapse the economy, as called for by Maurice Strong of the Club of Rome..
I think you’ve misunderstood my question. I understood that it was a requirement that a person be double jabbed in order to enter a nightclub. But the justification for closing the nightclubs is that many of those entering a nightclub may not be jabbed, which makes no sense to me.
This has nothing to do with defeating a virus and everything to do with defeating populations.
Got woke, went broke
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10340425/Paul-Feig-slams-Sony-studio-released-Ghostbusters-box-set-excluded-2016-reboot.html
This is good news, especially as it would not have emerged last year. People in Scotland are saying by a significant majority. Fuck your life-sapping rules.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59755847
Serve the Jocks right for electing the Scottish Nazi Party to run their lovely country into the ground
Thank God for nightclubs. Tell the WHO quick and they can save the world.
Thank you Nicola for showing us the way. Phew!!
So Wee Jimmy Krankie introduces Puritanism to Scotland.
Yet again! Unjustifiably hitting the youngest the hardest, one of the very groups that are best able to handle viruses.