- “FDA Waited Months to Alert Public to Possible COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Issues, Researchers Disclose” – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration first identified possible issues with the most-used COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021 but waited months to disclose the discovery to the public, a new publication revealed, according to the Epoch Times.
- “How Britain (narrowly) avoided lockdown last Christmas” – Exactly a year ago today, the Cabinet met to decide whether or not to lock down to tackle Omicron, and only narrowly decided not to, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator – with a full timeline of how the U.K. managed to escape from the Covidian event horizon.
- “Wave of civil servants suffer retirement regret after quitting during Covid” – Figures suggest incomes are not enough to fund retirement, according to the Telegraph.
- “No more room for the dead: China’s crematoriums overflow with corpses and hearses are backed up at funeral parlours as the country scraps Zero-Covid” – Hospitals are struggling and pharmacy shelves have been stripped bare following the Chinese Government’s sudden decision to end Zero-Covid, according to the Mail.
- “Texas Senate Health Committee Interim Report on COVID-19” – Dr. Robert Malone points readers to the new Texas Senate report on treatment policies, regulatory guidance and patient care that he was involved with and which he commends. I’m sure this will be the model for the U.K. Covid Inquiry…
- “Lockdowns Deaths in 2020 Were 42% of Excess Deaths” – Elliot Middleton writes in Brownstone that U.S. lockdown deaths in 2020 at 194,000 were 42% of total excess deaths. “Governments were given credible warnings about the dangers of lockdowns, but did not listen.”
- “Can’t see, can’t hear, can’t balance, can’t breathe. What the jab did to me” – AstraZeneca is “the company that permanently damaged me and turned my life upside down”, writes Kay Lacey in TCW.
- “How Long Will the Road to Recovery Be?” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson writes that “as long as we do not question, do not doubt, but blindly believe and obey, the sword of mass panic and all the damage done by it, still hangs over our heads”.
- “How intelligence agencies take over governments and nation states” – The latest from El Gato Malo: “Control the sensory input, control the mind.”
- “Toyota’s chief is right to stand up for the ‘silent majority’ on electric cars” – Putting all our chips behind electric is a risky bet, says Oscar Williams-Grut in the Telegraph.
- “In the Bleak Midwinter” – Listen to the latest Gnomes of Zurich podcast, where Barry Norris pauses this Christmastime “to contemplate what this year is sadly absent from our lives, which we previously took for granted, namely cheap and reliable energy”.
- “Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘hateful’ Duchess of Sussex column becomes most complained about ever” – More than 20,000 have contacted the press regulator over the article as MPs demand the Sun takes action against former Top Gear presenter, the Telegraph reports.
- “Jeremy Clarkson and the right to hate” – Britain’s humourless elites are a menace to liberty, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Jeremy’s Clarkson’s column made me recoil. But I defend his right to free speech.” – Laura Dodsworth says that Clarkson’s comments were sexist, crude and cruel, but the reaction to his column might pose a greater danger.
- “FBI Behind Twitter’s Censorship Of The Hunter Biden Laptop” – Michael Shellenberger says the FBI and intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and before the New York Post revealed them in October 2020.
- “Harry and Meghan owe the Royal family an apology – lucky for them, I’ve already written it” – Instead of demanding that the Palace say sorry, the Sussexes should take time out from being reality TV stars to start grovelling, suggests Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “FBI paid Twitter $3.5M ‘to do its bidding’: Taxpayers’ money was used for ‘processing requests’ from the bureau amid Hunter Biden censorship scandal – as anger grows over secret state censorship of the American people” – The FBI handed nearly $3.5 million of taxpayers money to Twitter in order for the social media giant to continue to do its bidding, the Mail reports.
- “New staff in Parliament who apply for security pass are asked whether their fathers are male or female on ‘woke’ online application form” – Anyone applying for a Westminster security pass must give details of their parents including their names, dates of birth and nationalities – and whether their father is male, the Mail reports.
- “NHS will spend £100,000 on scheme that teaches staff how to be inclusive to pregnant transgender men… and it could see them encouraged to say things like ‘chest-feeding’” – Health chiefs are planning on forking out £100,000 on a woke scheme that teaches NHS staff how to be inclusive to pregnant transgender men and will encourage using terms like ‘chest-feeding’, reports the Mail.
- “‘Insane, Brave, Karen’: Stanford Drops New Woke List Of Verboten Language” – Stanford University has just issued a ludicrous list of words we’re not supposed to use, reports Zero Hedge.
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