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News Round-Up

by Ian Macleod
18 May 2023 12:36 AM

  • “The false lesson of lockdown scepticism” – Increasing corporate power will end in disaster, according to Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
  • “Bad news: TV portrays Covid vaccine victims as Covid deaths” – News Watch 9 on NHK, the Japanese equivalent to the BBC, used “creatively deceptive editing”, says Guy Gin.
  • “Wuhan lab leak ‘happened about the same time as Covid emerged’” – U.S. analysis says Chinese city’s Institute of Virology was an ‘accident waiting to happen’, according to the Telegraph.
  • “New York nursing home Covid victim’s daughter slams Andrew Cuomo in House hearing” – The daughter of an elderly woman who died of COVID-19 in a New York nursing home ripped disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for covering up his decision to move infected patients into senior care facilities at the start of the pandemic, reports the New York Post.
  • “Will Rishi Sunak admit the truth about Net Zero?” – Rishi Sunak’s answers at PMQs made more sense than the cries of his detractors and offered a hint of something more rational than we have now, says George Trefgarne in the Spectator.
  • “I’m running for London Mayor to ditch Khan and scrap his driver tax” –  CEBR estimate Khan’s August ULEZ expansion will have an an additional revenue impact of £369 million, says Howard Cox in the Express.
  • “Just Stop Oil demo descends into chaos as police arrest protesters on Parliament Square” – The Met Police said eight arrests had been made following the march by 28 protesters on Parliament Square, reports the Express.
  • “Oxford scholars back Kathleen Stock’s right to speak” – Student union plans protest at gender-critical Professor’s appearance at debating society, reports the Times.
  • “When political dogma replaces medical truth” – The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine, writes Ian Kingsbury in City Journal.
  • “How therapists became social justice warrior” – New therapists describe a profession that teaches the ascribing of oppressor or victim categories to patients, based on their innate characteristics, instead of seeing them as individuals, says Lisa Selin Davis in the Free Press.
  • “Twitter unfairly maligned for turkey censorship” – Twitter more transparent than Google or Facebook and even Elon Musk’s harshest critics say Twitter had little choice, according to Michael Shellenberger.
  • “The stomach-drop moment I realised there was something terribly wrong at the Tavistock gender clinic” – Nurse reveals why she blew the whistle on “experimental” treatment on children as young as ten, reports MailOnline.
  • “Rishi Sunak won’t ban China’s Confucius Institutes despite promising to scrap them” – The Prime Minister said during last year’s leadership campaign that he would shut down the 30 Chinese culture institutes in the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
  • “I have been censored for warning about censorship” – If you want to discover the limits of free speech nowadays, talk about sex and gender, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
  • “Viewpoint Diversity Index shows most large companies threaten the fundamental freedoms of every American” – The second annual Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index showed that prominent companies lack commitments to guarantee the First Amendment liberties of their customers and employees, writes Ben Zeisloft in the Daily Wire.
  • “Trans activists now have a heckler’s veto on campus” – Universities are kowtowing to an intolerant fringe, according to Raquel Rosario Sanchez in Spiked.
  • “DeSantis cancels ‘pronoun Olympics’ for students, teachers and says it’s ‘not happening’ in Florida” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said students and teachers in Sunshine State schools will “never be forced to declare pronouns” while signing a measure to protect children and parental rights, reports Fox News.
  • “Kamala Harris grilled after claiming conservatives banning ‘women’s history’ classes” – Critics ripped the U.S. Vice President for claiming conservatives’ push to ban gender ideology classes from public education means they’re trying to ban “women’s history”, reports Fox News.
  • “Hey teachers, leave those kids alone” – “Thankfully I am in year nine now and I feel I dodged a bullet by not having to listen to any of this malarkey,” says 14 year-old Jack Watson in Country Squire Magazine. “But I feel for the younger students.”
  • “Sex-change procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital” – Doctors said that they would stop such medical interventions. Whistleblower documents prove that they haven’t, says Christopher Rufo in City Journal.
  • “Have you looked inside any of these books?” – Page through a few of the titles removed from Florida schools – some outright pornographic – and ask yourself if kids should be reading them, says Dave Seminara in City Journal.
  • “Is Sadiq Khan right about the U.K.’s LGBT rights regression?” – Khan’s language was emotive, but as a trans person I find his depiction of LGBT rights – at least as far as the UK is concerned – hard to recognise, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
  • “Bud Light sales plummet for fifth straight week as customers react against Mulvaney partnership” – Retail data from Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ indicate that sales for the brew declined 23.6% in the week ending May 6th relative to the same period last year, according to the Daily Wire.
  • “The dangerous nonsense of white guilt” – Woke identity politics risks fuelling white identity politics, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
  • “Offer me money. Offer me power. I don’t care” – Elon Musk went viral with a bold statement on free speech during an interview on CNBC.

.@elonmusk: “I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.”

pic.twitter.com/8Ol1gfNi1l

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 16, 2023

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Arum
Arum
1 year ago

They don’t seem to have included ‘The Government’ as a risk

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Arum

Maybe because the probably of harm from the government is 100%, so no risk analysis required. It’s a dead cert.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago

Does it say how we are countering this threat, as ‘piss our pants and run around like headless chickens doing stupid stuff’ turned out not to be as effective as we hoped…

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

And it wasnt even a threat. Everyone ran around scared of ghosts.

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

😂😂😂😂

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

As usual the Davos Deviants are telling us what they have in the pipeline.

My reckoning is that Billy’s new release will be either 2024 or 2025 and after the new IHR have been dotted and signed, but not before. All the other threats are just ‘maybe’s’ depending on the reaction to the next Scamdemic. If we tell them to F. O. and ignore it they will ramp the pressure with something else.

Nothing new here really.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Agree with you. 1918, 1950s (polio etc), 1976, 2001, 2020….2025-27 is most likely. Married to GlobaloneyBoiling and Melting. Permafrost ‘melt’ releases the scary mammoth virus which flies a few million miles and infects everyone. Pangolins, Bats, Science and all that. Happily Kill Gates and friends will have the magic mRNA elixir to hand…

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David101
David101
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It won’t necessarily be a pandemic next, or anything we’ve become familiar with… This new “Risk Assessment” document will serve as a convenient toolkit that any state, corporation, supra-national body or billionaire, or an axis combining all of these seeking total control, can pick and choose from to keep the public feeling “sufficiently threatened” and hence subservient to their globalist goals. It appears they’ve done themselves a nice little handbook of over 90 scare tactics to pull out of the bag, depending on the latest fashion!
Doesn’t matter whether it’s a “pandemic” a threat from Russia, climate nonsense or Martian invasion – it only matters the level of fear it induces.

Last edited 1 year ago by David101
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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  David101

It will probably be an Earthquake in LA. Now just stop that!

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

Of course Russian disruption had to be on the list. The Russians haven’t disrupted our energy supplies, we did it to ourselves helped out by our partner in crime USA through sanctions and a bit if help blowing up a pipeline.
Russia’s best weapon against UK is our irrational, incompetent governing classes of all stripes who now use propaganda at least as frequently as Russia did in the cold war, and whose obsession with saving the world from the evils of British co2 have managed to ship many of the sources of it overseas.
Breaking news, it was an undersea Pacific volcano last year that caused a 10% rise in atmospheric H2O vapour (a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon (sic)) which caused a minor rise in temperature.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

”The register said a fresh pandemic may be worse than Covid and could affect half of the population, with an estimated 1.34 million people needing hospital treatment and up to potential 840,000 deaths.”

Yes and I’m sure 400 years ago that would indeed be a possibility but fortunately today we have specific things called *medicines* and a healthy ( and growing ) distrust of governments, ergo, shove your flipping fear porn PsyOp up your backsides! Honestly, this garbage has ”Neil Ferguson” written all over it.
Hello 77th Hamster Penis Regiment <wavey hand morphing to flip the bird!> I know you’ll be watching to see how this crap is being received by the non-brainwashed segment of the population..You think we’re gonna fall for this BS you can jog on, munters!

<Mogwai will begin to have mysterious technical issues once more> 😉

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

this garbage has ”Neil Ferguson” written all over it.

If only it was possible to upvote you a thousand times! What a bonus hole he is.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

😆 Well he sure as hell belongs under the heading of ‘Turds that will not be flushed’.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogs – you’re a 🌟 star.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Flatterer 🙃

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

😀😀😀

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smallfuzzballs
smallfuzzballs
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

When did any ‘medicine work ? More side effects more medicine, permanent damage, no I’ll think I’ll dodge the si called ‘vaccines’ avs vouch for my 100,000 year old immune system thanks

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

An alternative view could be that Covid-19 wasn’t actually as bad as we feared, until we assisted it in various ways. Need to plan ahead more to do a proper job.

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johnboy12
johnboy12
1 year ago

Translation – “One in Four Chance of us Pulling Another Pandemic Scam in Next Five Years, According to New Government Analysis”

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

This is how the world becomes a miserable, cheerless place to live in.

A technocrat draws up a “risk analysis” and puts everything he can think of in it, so that no one can ever accuse him of having been careless.

Then the toxic document is handed to policy makers who are told they can ignore it at their own peril. They of course want to cover their arses too, so they act on it.

And so we shuffle towards a dystopian world in which we live assuming the worst, preparing for catastrophe and obsessively weeding out every shred risk until our lives are so miserable we might as well top ourselves.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Brand new study looking at the cardiovascular outcomes of adolescents who were diagnosed with Covid vax-induced myocarditis, a 1 year follow-up;

”To our knowledge, this is the longest follow-up study to date with comprehensive cardiac evaluation and imaging of adolescent patients diagnosed with COVID-19 vaccine–associated myocarditis. Global systolic ventricular function appears to be preserved. However, impairment of LV and RV myocardial deformation and persistence of LGE in a significant subset of patients with up to 1 year of follow-up was observed. Growing evidence suggests worse prognosis in the presence of altered myocardial deformation and LGE in patients with myocarditis. 

A short-term study reported abnormal CMR-derived LV longitudinal strain and LGE in 70% to 75% of adolescent patients with COVID-19 vaccine–associated myocarditis followed up for 3 to 8 months. Similar CMR findings were found in young adults studied at 3 to 6 months after the initial diagnosis. The implications of impaired systolic and diastolic myocardial deformation and LGE in our patient subset remain unclear. Nonetheless, given that impaired myocardial deformation and LGE are indicators of subclinical myocardial dysfunction and fibrosis, there exists a potential long-term effect on exercise capacity and cardiac functional reserve during stress.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10373639/

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Jobs for the boys. Keeps the service busy, but could they just hand it over to the likes of Ladbrokes, Paddy Power etc?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

How prescient these criminals who profited from the scamdemic were. No wonder they’re all hinting at and gleefully rubbing their hands together at the prospect of the next one. Good 5min video;

https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1685736544814972928

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago

2025

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Hospitals across 5 US states targeted in a cyber attack today. I read about 5 Italian banks being hacked the other day too. Now who’s warned us about these future cyber attacks in the recent past….?

”MANCHESTER, Conn. – A cyberattack disrupted hospital computer systems in several states, forcing some emergency rooms to close and ambulances to be diverted, and many primary care services remained closed Friday as security experts worked to determine the extent of the problem and resolve it.
The “data security incident” began Thursday at facilities operated by Prospect Medical Holdings, which is based in California and has hospitals and clinics there and in Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.”

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/08/04/cyberattacks-prospect-medical-hospitals-health-facilities/70529098007/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You know how the Russians used to get the blame for everything? Now my go-to scapegoat is Klaus. Entirely justified, I listen to what people are telling us. Arrogant gits. He does fit the part though, you must admit… 😉

https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1687501531783041024

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogs – Davos Deviants as I usually refer.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
1 year ago

100% chance. It’s already been planned.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

According to Bill Gates, there’s 100% chance of another pandemic very shortly after the WHO’s new Pandemic Treaty has been implemented.

He even knows that it will target young people.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Biggest risks facing the country

Net Zero
WHO Pandemic Treaty
PLandemics
European Union
Involvement in foreign wars the have nothing to do with us
Stupid pointless politicians,

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

You mean ” seasonal flu” or the untreated diseases casually allowed in across the channel 🤔 I don’t think politicians have noticed yet, that nobody takes any notice of them anymore.

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smallfuzzballs
smallfuzzballs
1 year ago

And pray tell how are they predicting that unless it is man made? Or staged even? Our government needs dissolving they serve no purpose anymore other than to make us poor and fearful

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago

I wouldn’t say the failure of the UK electricity supply system was a remote chance. All we need is another winter, or even a month or so, similar to that of 1963 and I think any small reserve built into the system will quickly be used up, and rolling power cuts would become commonplace. We haven’t done, but I know quite a few people now who have bought generators for just such an eventuality. (Although we live in an area where power cuts are common – any severe weather and the lights go out.)
I’m surprised a ‘Carrington’ type event isnt mentioned, which would take out most of the world’s electronics.
I wonder what’s planned for the next scamdemic? I mean, if you re-marketed norovirus as a potentially deadly illness, milions of people would happily believe it.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  The old bat

What’s planned next? Just take a look at the jabs being enabled approved by the FDA & MHRA. My money’s on RSV or Dengue, or whatever else Billy can get into his genetically modified mozzies and tics.

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Peter W
Peter W
1 year ago

No 1 on the list:
Self-destruction of society and infrastructure by pursuing Net Zero.

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David101
David101
1 year ago

I wonder whether anywhere in this report is included the greatest threats to our ways of life in the history of humankind… These include:

The Pandemic Treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations.

Net Zero

Central Bank Digital Currencies

The Ministry of Truth

Surveillance, data capture and digital IDs

Censorship of inconvenient truths.

… Oh sorry, I forgot, all these things were just designed to protect us, of course!

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

It’s well accepted that (serious pandemics)
Occur once a century.. then two come along in 4-5 years, really!…it’s almost as if they are willing one into existence 🤔(or determined to cause one!)

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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David101
David101
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Not even cause one – just declare one! Take you pick out of thousands of new pathogens and strains of pathogens emerging every single day, and call it a pandemic. Once you’ve given it that name, you can pull all manner of stunts.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

The most chronic threat to the western world are our own shyte governments! which ever one we have forced upon us through lack of real alternatives

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago

Everyone dies sometime, why the fuss? It is all part of the blame game and more cash!

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