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by Ian Macleod
2 April 2023 1:11 AM

  • “Next Round of Covid Booster Jabs to Start Within Days” – The latest round of Covid boosters will start on Monday. Five million high-risk Brits will be eligible for a spring vaccine, reports the Sun.
  • “Novak Djokovic Likely to Contest U.S. Open After Senate Vote to End Covid Restrictions ” – The 22-time Grand Slam winner looks set to return to America after being banned for his vaccine status, reports the Express.
  • “Are Heat Pumps Really Worth It?” – The U.K. is lagging behind the rest of the world in adopting the green tech, but with new gas boilers to be phased out by 2035, the Times asks what its like for the early adopters.
  • “The Left Has a New Aim: To Make Ordinary People Poorer” – The net zero debate has revealed a stunning shift in the basic assumptions that underpin left-wing political thinking, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Tennessee’s ‘Drag Ban’ Law” – The law, which criminalises some drag performances, was set to take effect on Saturday, according to NBC News.
  • “Who Will Stand Up to This Woke Elite?” – Laura Perrins, co-founder and co-editor of the Conservative Woman, calls on readers to stand up to the “woke elite” and stop gender ideology and other woke movements from running rampant.
  • “Andrew Tate Responds After Being ‘Hilariously’ Mocked in South Park Episode” – Tate may have been released from Romanian jail, but he hasn’t escaped the makers of South Park, reports the Independent.
  • “Keir Starmer: Trans Rights Can’t Override Women’s Rights” – Sir Keir knows he has a “women problem” – or at least the perception of one, according to the Times.
  • “Kentucky’s New LGBTQ Law Ignites Protests” – Nineteen people have been arrested during the backlash after a new law was passed banning transgender medical treatment for those under 18, according to the BBC.
  • “Jamie Lee Curtis Celebrates Daughter Ruby for Trans Day of Visibility” – The movie star has been vocal about her support for trans rights, according to the Independent.
  • “Language Is Not Our Master” – The perpetually offended have endowed words with quasi-magical properties, argues Patrick West in Spiked.
  • “Husband of Suella Braverman Speaks Out Against Gary Lineker” – Rael Braverman calls it “the Gary Lineker intervention”. The Home Secretary’s husband has accused the football pundit of smearing his wife, according to the Mail Online.
  • “Council Could Sell Its ‘Inappropriate’ Biblical Paintings” – An Oxford councillor has proposed a motion saying the town hall’s art does not reflect the authority’s “progressive” agenda, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The BBC is Axing Its Panel Shows. It Only Has Itself to Blame” – Satire comedy shows appear to be dying on the BBC as another one bites the dust, according to the Spectator.
  • “Gone With the Wind Branded ‘Harmful’ By Its Own Publisher” – Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War epic novel has been deemed “problematic” in a trigger warning by its publisher, Pan Macmillan, reports the Telegraph.
  • “BBC Wants Michael Vaughan to Return With Talks Planned Next Week” – The corporation wants the former England captain to cover the Ashes, but he is still considering his options, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Café Renames Ploughman’s Lunch to Customer’s Horror” – Espresso Corner in Kirkgate, a self-styled “cozy little independent coffee shop” has gone woke with a gender-neutral menu item, as reported in the Mail Online.
  • “James Delingpole Hosts Neil Oliver” – Watch James in conversation with special guest Neil Oliver for his live show at the Emmanuel Centre, London.
  • “These People Are a Doomsday Cult” — Watch Emily Carver on GB News as she argues that Just Stop Oil activists are damaging their own mental health — and ours.

'These people are a doomsday cult and they are damaging our mental health.'@CarverEmily says Just Stop Oil should stop themselves. pic.twitter.com/1pKBo1qlr4

— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 1, 2023

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21904660/next-round-covid-booster-jabs/

  • Published: 0:01, 1 Apr 2023

Is this part of the biggest and most prolonged April ‘Fool’ of all time?

‘THE next round of Covid booster jabs will start on Monday.
Five million high-risk Brits will be eligible for a spring vaccine to keep them out of hospital.’

I suppose it will help to keep the jabbed out of hospital if they are prepared to play Russian roulette and incur a ‘died suddenly’ at home status.

Of course, it will help to reduce the horrendous waiting lists, every little helps…

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Many of the offerees will be care home residents. As residents of care homes tend to all get jabbed at the same time, I have thought care home companies could collate numbers of deaths following each dose to see if there was a pattern.

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David101
David101
2 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Constant boosting is like paying off your credit card debt using another credit card and so on infinitum, where the interest keeps increasing each time. Each successive Covid booster protects for a short time, but then compromises your overall immunity further, leading to the need for further Covid boosters!
“$$$$$$$$”!

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  David101

Yes..people have short memories..but week in week out, this site did weekly vaccine updates from the data put out by the MHRA…and as the “quacksine efficacy’ started waning, people in each age cohort went into vaccine debt..
so they were more likely to be a ‘case’ than the unvaccinated….this went on for months….

The ONLY people I know who are constantly getting colds and sniffles are vaccinated…!

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Yes. The only people I know repeatedly getting colds have had the treatment. Someone said to me yesterday that the maximum colds they remember getting was two a year and now he’s just had two back to back and four last year. I tentatively suggested that many people’s immune systems seemed to be breaking down… He moved the conversation on rather swiftly and inelegantly… Lots of people know deep down. Covnative dissonance?

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

Very iatrogenic

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

Indeed, so true.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  David101

So true. I’m SO glad I stopped at two doses in May 2021!

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Kentucky’s New LGBTQ Law Ignites Protests”

The evil ‘far-right’ trying to stop confused and impressionable young people from having their genitals butchered.? How dreadful..! I wonder how many of the 19 are against FGM or circumcision for that matter..?

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago

Welcome to the Government Poundshop full of absolute (whoops, can’t say that word otherwise…) garbage and c**p:

“Come on in, come on in we’ve got Covid boosters by the gallon, going cheap. Nah, no one wants them mate. Tell you what you can 5 for the price of one.

“We’ve also got heat pumps. Buy one and get one free. No, they don’t work either. Oh please buy one, they’re an investment, they’ll be antiques before you know it.

“Here, how about we throw in a EV with the heat pump and a couple of boosters. How much? Pound, mate. Ooh, talking about pounds we’ve got these brand new shiny CBDCs. You can have one of them. What d’ya mean, you can’t see it? Turn on your phone, ya nana, it’ll be there in your social credit account. Yeah, we call it a ‘token’, sort of a nickname. Like quid was for the old pounds.

“Oh please buy something, otherwise we’ll go bust. Oh we’re already bust my boss says. How about a shiny digital ID then? You can have the EV, a gallon of mRNA liquid (keep it away from magnets), a couple of heat pumps and a digital ID…..”

Shopper exits shop at a run and shop owner shoots himself, theyself, itselves, sheselves in the foot (feet)…

Last edited 2 years ago by AethelredTheReadier
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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago

Thinker, traitor, beggarpeople, Terf….no it just doesn’t work, does it? Although the first two words apply very much to today’s world. Tinker, Tailor, Beggarman, Thief. Much better.

This ‘Ploughperson’ debate and the seemingly unbothered local MP is a real case in point about how the gender neutral movement is insidiously working itself deeper and deeper into the fabric of the country. For a start, it just sounds totally ridiculous and should be ridiculed as a result but where do you stop? Well, according to the unnamed and unseen keepers of the gender movement there is no stopping. ‘Men’ is going to be replaced, not just physically with the transhuman, transgender Eloi-types but on the written page too. People like me, and no doubt like some of you, i.e. white, male, English and into late middle age are the most redundant of the species. Pale, male and stale as they call us. Even old retired ploughmen must be shocked to find they’re surplus to requirements in terms of terminology…anyway, ploughmen existed in the days when ploughing was done by oxen and you had oxgangs, a measurement that defined what could be ploughed in a day by a man and and his ox (oxen). It’s therefore a direct link to our past and in that context has a meaning. Ploughperson doesn’t mean anything. It’s as fake as a Regency town like Poundbury, that odd extension to Dorchester, that looks so devoid of any character that I almost swear no one actually lives there but I disgress. My point is that much of these creeping changes to our language and culture are undermining our history and our connection to the land and something real and unfathomable. It gives a deep sense of belonging and I derive much strength, albeit in a subtle way, to that sense of belonging. Woke gives me nothing. It is empty, cold, vacuous and meaningless. It is a screaming, hysterical movement devoid of love or understanding while attempting to be both those things.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Morning all!

New substack from Vinay Prasad

New Study on Long COVID in kids and young adults FAILS to link COVID to Long COVIDInitial symptom severity, loneliness and poor physical activity are linked insteadA new paper out now from the Norwegians on Long COVID in kids and young adolescents takes a sledgehammer to the media narrative of the condition. 
TL:DR – Long covid has no link to prior COVID19, instead, initial symptom severity (of whatever virus you get), loneliness and poor physical activity are linked to the “post covid conditions”

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/bombshell-new-study-on-long-covid?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Long Covid – aka the malingering civil servants’ / council workers friend. I was going to say they’re not going to take this report lying down, but of course they will and will continue to milk this Disney Malaise for all its worth until the coffers run totally dry.

Long Covid is the Custer’s Last Stand, the Masada, the Rorke’s Drift of the Pro-Am Covid Cheerleaders.

Long Jab on the other hand…

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

This is why we can NEVER stop….people like Lisa Shaw should never be forgotten, or swept under the carpet…..

Gareth Eve
@garetheve

Why has the Yellow Card data regarding adverse reactions & fatalities *confirmed* to have been caused by the AstraZeneca CoVid vaccine been removed from http://gov.uk ??

If we take the data away, did my wife not really die?

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered… Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Orwell, 1984

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David101
David101
2 years ago

“Gone with the Wind branded harmful by it’s own publisher”.

Well I have to say that frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Just a reminder for when they bring in the hose-pipe bans this summer that it has just been reported that March 2023 has been the wettest March since 1981, with some areas seeing three times the expected rainfall.
The UK still hasn’t built a new reservoir in 30 years, while the population has gone up in that same time by around ten million…and according to Ofwat…In England and Wales, water companies lost an average of 2,923.8 million litres of water a day in 2021-22, equating to 1.06 trillion litres over the year. This is equivalent to the amount of water used by 13 million people each day.

But masks for cows farts and burps!!? That’ll do it?

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Ofwat. What do they do? Count lost water! What a marvellous history of watching a dripping tap. Thank you for your service.

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David101
David101
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

I’ve just heard my local region has seen the wettest March 27th since 2020!

There have been 504 months since 1981. Before 1981 Marches may well have been wetter. If there is any trend whatsoever in climate (which would be perfectly normal), then probability law would make it extremely likely that at least one, and probably more, months in that time period would see some kind of record broken, if we choose to use an arbitrary cut-off date of, say, 1981.

Any journalist, given the directive to report on climate hysteria, could easily sift through the vast databases of meteorological data and find something to make a scary headline about.
But I agree with your point about the wasteful water supply infrastructure, etc.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

“The revision in guidelines was put out by the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) – a group of scientists and officials which said they no longer recommend the Covid vaccine for “healthy” children ages 6 months to 17 years.
“The public health impact of vaccinating healthy children and adolescents is comparatively much lower than the established benefits of traditional essential vaccines for children – such as the rotavirus, measles, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines,” SAGE wrote.”

Indeed…! Now what he said….👇

@MarkChangizi

The WHO no longer recommends vaccinating children, so line up and get them unvaccinated today.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

They’re getting quite twitchy aren’t they, as they try bigging up ‘the established benefits’ of traditional, essential vaccines. So many people have been exposed to the idea that ‘it’s turtles all the way down’ and that many/all traditional vaccines are far from essential, far from healthy, far from science.

So tradition good, novel bad. Really?
Essential good, inessential bad. Says who?
No, not really.
There’s some very heavy lifting being attempted here from the SAGE Jabs PR volk and it smacks of quiet desperation to me. Shifting deck chairs on the SS Jabageddon Coverup.

Unfortunately many people’s faith in the whole structure has been destroyed, even before the juggernaut of truth has got into second gear.

Hope springs eternal.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

Yes..I find myself questioning everything….….
this is a good video..it’s been put on before as it’s from 2022..but where does our belief in vaccination come from?
https://inproportion2.talkigy.com/vaccine_belief.html

Just due to some reading I was doing I found that in the UK, the year before the measles vaccinations were introduced, less than 100 measles deaths had been notified….in part because of good nutrition and improved cleanliness I suspect….……and were those people already susceptible with co-morbidities?? Was a vaccine really required?

….and because of the quacksine I’m now asking, who studies what long term effects any vaccines have? I mean if you have the MMR as a child does it make you susceptible to other diseases, like cancer, at a later stage?..who is checking? where are the long term studies….Who knows?..does nobody care?

..and worse, as Mark Changizi says..you can’t now get your kids un-quacksinated….

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

The latest Covid mRNA treatment tragedy is merely the ultimate in a 6+ decades expansion of a deadly fraudulent science con. The witting participants had to keep doubling down or it would reveal the whole deceptive sh*tshow, the baseless horror for profit. That’s why the safety signals MUST be ignored by the players. They will never blow the whistle. They are in blood stepped in so far…

So all praise and support to actual pro-science scientists and not these pharmafia frauds. And to the people waking up to this from within, it’s time to leave.

The truth nevertheless will out.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

New from Eugyppius…
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/germany-having-concluded-some-of

Germany, having concluded some of the most insanely stupid pharmaceutical contracts in the world, will soon receive enough Covid mRNA vaccine to last well into the 24th century….You could not have invented a stupider pandemic:

According to the German Ministry of Health, the federal government at the end of February had amassed a reserve of 116 million doses of Corona vaccine. 111 million more doses, valued at around 2.5 billion Euros, are slated for delivery. According to an answer given by the Ministry on 28 March to a question by Thomas Dietz, a Bundestag member of Alternativ für Deutschland, EU treaties oblige the German government to take delivery of these doses. “In view of the current state of the pandemic, the federal government is working to make these EU treaties more flexible,” the answer continues.

Another paper does the maths, and notes that if vaccination continues at the current rate of 2,000 jabs per day, the 227 million doses which Germany has procured will last for 311 years. Of course, all of these doses will expire well before then, so Germany will merely receive all of this useless product, store it at substantial expense in freezers for around eighteen months, and then throw it away. This hurts Corona.

well worth a read…….

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