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by Ian Macleod
14 May 2023 12:53 AM

  • “Inside the £1 billion AstraZeneca compensation battle” – How British families left bereaved or disabled after getting AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine are fighting for compensation to avoid financial ruin, according to MailOnline.
  • “Exposed: ‘cruel’ flaws of Government-funded financial support scheme for Brits injured by AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine” – Don’t even bother trying to claim the one-off payment of £120,000 if you’re only “59% disabled”, according to MailOnline.
  • “Masks and marriage: match-making in a faceless Japan” – Tokyo University researchers estimated that 166,000 fewer marriages occurred between 2020 and 2022 “due to Covid”, says Guy Gin.
  • “Covid: the destruction of medical ethics and trust in the medical profession” – In TCW, Dr. Ahmad K. Malik, a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, presents the second part of his discussion of the damage done by the Government’s irrational Covid policies, this time focusing on the betrayal of informed consent.
  • “‘It’s frustrating to look back’: nurse fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccine reflects as U.S. national emergency ends” – Biden marked an end to the Covid emergency this week, reports Fox News.
  • “The four pillars of medical ethics were destroyed in the Covid response” – The four fundamental concepts of medical ethics are autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice, writes Dr. Clayton J. Baker in Brownstone.
  • “In Somerset, noisy new Net Zero pylons are marching across the countryside – and the locals are not happy” – These are a new brand of electricity pylon – the first departure from the familiar design in close to a century. But discontent is growing, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Commuter towns will ‘become car parks’ under ULEZ expansion plans, Mayor warned” – Tory MP Louise French said Home Counties residents will park outside of the M25 and travel into London by train to avoid the charge, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Man arrested on suspicion of ULEZ camera damage as police crack down on vandals” – The 42 year-old was charged with criminal damage as Met Police reveal it has received 96 allegations of damage to cameras, according to the Telegraph.
  • “National Grid’s John Pettigrew: network needs billions to hit Net Zero” – Pettigrew warned that it would cost “tens of billions of pounds” to rewire the grid and admitted that it would mean money would be added to household bills, reports the Times.
  • “Just Stop Oil protesters team up with pro-Palestine demo in central London as they claim ‘Palestinians are among most vulnerable to effects of climate collapse’” – The eco-activists gathered in Parliament Square before moving on to Whitehall, as the Met Police said they were “engaging” with the procession, according to MailOnline.
  • “Billy Bremner must fall? Statues given a costly slave audit” – Councils spent more than than £100,000 to conclude that many memorials had few or no links to slavery, according to the Times.
  • “Cleopatra, black? Excuse my Greek but you’re talking out of your asp” – For those who don’t know, the fact that a black woman, Adele James, is playing Cleopatra has annoyed everyone from scholars of Egyptian antiquity to modern-day Greeks and Egyptians, says Tomiwa Owolade in the Times.
  • “The row over the ‘terribly white’ Royal balcony exposes the hypocrisy of the woke Left” – The double standards are blatantly obvious – except, of course, to them, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
  • “Critical race theory has a scholarship problem” – For many critical theorists, the true dividing line isn’t privileged people versus the oppressed; it’s people who agree with them versus those whose motives cannot be trusted, says Julian Adorney in Quillette.
  • “British universities are beyond redemption” – There is a strong argument that a good number of our universities should be gently allowed to die, says Andrew Tettenborn, a Professor at Swansea Law School, in the Spectator.
  • “Biden blasted for calling ‘white supremacy’ ‘most dangerous terrorist threat’ at college speech” – Critics accused Biden of using the opportunity to inflame racial tension in the United States, reports Fox News.
  • “Starbucks employee sacked for ranting at woman she accused of ‘transphobia’ is an outspoken trans activist whose neighbours are terrified of ‘offending by mistakenly saying the wrong thing’” – Until today the identity of the coffee shop worker filmed berating a woman and throwing her out of a branch of the chain in Southampton in footage that went viral has remained secret, reports MailOnline.
  • “The United Nations is wrong about Britain’s treatment of trans people” – A wise government would simply dismiss the UN expert’s statement as the opinion of someone who spent his time listening only to those who reinforced his worldview, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
  • “Outrage over WHO advice on sexuality for infants” – Guide argues that “sexuality education starts from birth”, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Stonewall co-founder: I spoke at Cambridge, students tried to cancel me” – In the Times, Simon Fanshawe says parents and education leaders must stop indulging student intolerance.
  • “Texas House votes to advance law banning child sex change – one Democrat breaks ranks to vote with GOP” – Texas moved one step closer to banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex-change surgeries in minors, according to the Post Millennial.
  • “We chose freedom over ‘Faucism’” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cautions against allowing the history of lockdowns and medical mandates to be rewritten.

"We chose freedom over "Faucism", and we were better off as a result of doing that."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

MORE: https://t.co/NMMfwRq9Ar pic.twitter.com/UjXBr6MRdr

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) May 13, 2023

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago

It is hard to understand the MSM culture of silence and avoidance of anything that seems like a critique of either the mRNA ‘vaccines’ or of the government health agencies, who refuse to review the collateral health damage even though  informed consent and patient safety are at stake. The bodies that are meant to defend the patient and stand up for medical ethics remain quiet. The journalists, media outlets, celebrities, influencers and activists who speak out on ‘climate emergency’ or the UK getting there first on the vaccine remain deadly quiet when it comes to the greatest medical experiment inflicted on humankind” (TCW, my bold)

Not really hard to understand. I repeat my call for the Times muppets to give full disclosure on all direct and indirect links to the pharmaceutical industry. Whilst their welcome if belated story about harms from the experimental AZ coronavirus medication suggests at least some acknowledgment of the issue, they remain silent about Pfizer and Moderna, despite having a policy editor in Oliver Wright (Oliver Wright | The Times & The Sunday Times) who has written articles like these for the Independent in 2014 about unethical practices in the pharmaceutical industry, including AZ and Pfizer:

Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent

Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
(Refresh page to show full story?)

Note particularly this section:

‘JMC Partners’ clients include blue-chip drugs firms such as Novatis, Astro Zenica, Sanofi and Pfizer. It also represents a number of medical device manufacturers and biotech companies who sell their products to the NHS, including Roche Diagnostics, Cyberonics and Bausch & Lomb.

The company’s website makes bold claims about how it has been able to influence policy. In one case study it says it represented a medical device manufacturer who was worried about a planned cut in the amount the NHS paid for a treatment with which it was involved. JMC boasted that it organised a lobbying campaign targeting MPs and ministers as well as mobilising doctors to support its cause. It concludes: “The market for the technology was saved.” ‘ (my bold)

I rather suspect that groups such as the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) and the Health Advisory & Recovery Team (HART) with the patient interest at heart do not have such lobbying powers. Having slandered btl commenters on this site for raising legitimate questions about the “covid ‘vaccines’ “, theTimes muppets owe us an explanation. Until they do so, and until they start behaving like proper responsible journalists, I will continue to regard them as anti-truthers. Muppets.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago

Not entirely unrelated to my above post, this interview with RFK Jr on the Mark Steyn show is well worth a watch:

RFK Jr runs for President :: SteynOnline

Highlights include disturbing information about the “sickest generation in American history”, how he is “anti pharmaceutical industry’s control of government”, how profit was more important than public health, and some interesting stuff on the Ukraine war.

RFK Jr and De Santis going for the “American presidency”? Now there’s a contest I could live with!

Hang it, I wish I was going on that Mark Steyn cruise…

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

This is just evil and sick. I sincerely hope this family get either a good lawyer to overturn the hospital’s policy or Tanner can go to another hospital where they are actually interested in saving lives.

”Tanner Donaldson, a 9-year-old from Cleveland was born with a rare birth defect that caused irreversible kidney damage in utero and has resulted in stage 4 chronic kidney disease as well as bladder and urinary dysfunctions as he grew older.
A kidney transplant from the proper donor could reverse his disease and put Tanner back on track to have a normal life for at least 20 more years. Before the pandemic began to unfold in 2018, Tanner had found that donor — his dad, Dane Donaldson.
Because a kidney from a live donor only lasts about 20 years, the family decided to wait a couple of years before carrying out the transplant to extend Tanner’s life as long as possible. Then covid happened.
Prior to the Emergency Use Authorization of the covid vaccine, Dane and Tanner could’ve undergone the surgery and be in recovery right now. But covid changed all that and the hospital is now refusing to conduct the surgery because Dane is not vaccinated against covid-19. Seriously.”

https://magspress.com/9-year-old-boy-refused-life-saving-kidney-transplant-because-his-father-is-unvaccinated/

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

Absolutely disgraceful isn’t it?

“Individuals who are actively infected with COVID-19 have a much higher rate of complications during and after surgery, even if the infection is asymptomatic,” the hospital stated.

Surely that should exclude all the jabbed from being donors, then?

It seems the hospital would accept an organ from a soon-to-die / brain dead individual – jab status unknown – but won’t accept from a healthy unjabbed donor.

Not only crazy, it’s bordering on evil, denying someone a chance of life.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago
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Don’t know where the links from the word ‘surgery’ came from.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12077475/Starbucks-manager-sacked-transphobia-rant-activist-terrifies-neighbours.html

Why is it that people who demand tolerance and understanding have no concept of tolerance or understanding?

What ‘rights’ don’t the transpeople have that others have?

What do they realistically want?

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