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Oxford’s Continued Descent into Green Hell

by Ben Pile
1 January 2025 7:00 AM

Oxfordshire’s green lunatics are at it again. The fuss has only just died down since the County Council’s experiment with Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the so-called ’15 minute city’ agenda drew worldwide attention. Now, the ambitious council has, according to the Oxford Mail, become “the first local authority in the U.K.” to commit “to go beyond [the] Net Zero target”, which it will achieve on behalf of its 750,000 population “by removing carbon emissions from the atmosphere”.

According to the council itself, it had taken “specialist advice” from one Prof. Steve Smith, who is “Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal” at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and Environment. This should strike us as odd, for several reasons.


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    zners
    zners
    3 years ago

    FDA just approved Pfizer bang on as predicted. Mandate waves are coming.

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    TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
    TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
    3 years ago
    Reply to  zners

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-full-pfizer-covid-vaccine.html

    Yes you can hear the glee of the health-fascists in this article for mandating the clotting agents.

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    milesahead
    milesahead
    3 years ago
    Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

    Let’s hope the health fascists are first in the queue for the booster shot!

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    chris c
    chris c
    3 years ago
    Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

    Look at it from their ponit of view. everyone who died of the vaccine DID NOT die of covid. Which is good.

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    MadJock1
    MadJock1
    3 years ago
    Reply to  zners

    I know this is probably a very stupid question – but how the hell can this get full approval if the full results of the phase 3 trial aren’t due until 2023? This is like the FAA giving a brand new aircraft of revolutionary design a full type certificate after a fraction of the fatigue tests and knowing there have been problems during initial flight tests. Utterly reckless.

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    TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
    TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
    3 years ago
    Reply to  MadJock1

    apparently the most side effects on VAERS bigger than all the last 36 years still means “very rare” even at rates higher than withdrawn vaccines.

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    Liewe
    Liewe
    3 years ago
    Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

    If they say “very rare” it must be so. If they say “mild side effect” it means you didn’t land in hospital. If you’re unable to work for three days it’s a sign your immune system is “working”.

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    MadJock1
    MadJock1
    3 years ago
    Reply to  MadJock1

    Edit – just realised that was a bad analogy. The FAA approved the 737 Max with a new control system that wasn’t properly tested and had been shown to have potential flaws. That only killed 346 people – but who’s counting.

    Seems like safety regulation now works differently from any of the published text-books. Anticipate a problem, find evidence of the problem, check how much money / political power is involved, if the answer is lots – ignore the problem. When it goes wrong continue to ignore the obvious facts. If the problem then still won’t go away blame someone else.

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    Bella Donna
    Bella Donna
    3 years ago
    Reply to  MadJock1

    Crossing palms with loads of dosh usually does it.

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    me too
    me too
    3 years ago
    Reply to  MadJock1

    This is not a void question.
    It needs the follow one:
    From where to where is the flow of money?

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    marebobowl
    marebobowl
    3 years ago
    Reply to  MadJock1

    Reckless. That describes the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer experimental biological, perfectly. Despite the list of serious adverse event and deaths post Pfizer vaxx, it was approved.

    The money being spent on this effort to force every human to be vaxxed is eye watering.

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    Aleajactaest
    Aleajactaest
    3 years ago
    Reply to  zners

    No they didn’t. They extended the EUA

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    MadJock1
    MadJock1
    3 years ago
    Reply to  zners

    Just picked up on this from comments in the Today’s Update. Absolutely damming piece from the editor of the BMJ on the impending full approval of the Pfizer shot;

    https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/23/does-the-fda-think-these-data-justify-the-first-full-approval-of-a-covid-19-vaccine/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

    Anyone that reads this (and the other info linked in it) and does not have any concern about the rushed approval really needs help.

    The fact that the FDA has now formally approved this drug, prior to completion of trials, and without the scrutiny it had previously promised should be deeply worrying to everyone. Why have they taken this action? Why now?

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    Amtrup
    Amtrup
    3 years ago
    Reply to  MadJock1

    Fantastic article. Thanks for the link.

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    Annie
    Annie
    3 years ago

    Out of the covidpan into the flue, eh?

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    RW
    RW
    3 years ago
    Reply to  Annie

    Flu prevented by lockdowns! is certainly a sentence with leading into dangerous territory.

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    I am Spartacas
    I am Spartacas
    3 years ago

    It just gets worse doesn’t it?

    I’m reminded of that Ronald Reagan quote …

    “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

    Never a truer word spoken.

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    thinkcriticall
    thinkcriticall
    3 years ago

    Getting the narrative ready for the ADE deaths ths winter. They’ll be chalked up as Flu deaths. Nothing to see here, take your boosters, move along!

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    marebobowl
    marebobowl
    3 years ago
    Reply to  thinkcriticall

    They are already happening. Thousands of breakthrough cases in need of hospitalisations. Covid Cases in countries with high vaxx skyrocketing, many hospitalised.

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    RW
    RW
    3 years ago

    Because of lockdown, we need more lockdown, otherwise, something bad could happen.

    The science in a nutshell.

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    A Heretic
    A Heretic
    3 years ago

    There has also been a lack of flu infections because of lockdowns worldwide because of lockdowns worldwide
    because everything is being rebadged as covid to keep the numbers up.

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    RW
    RW
    3 years ago
    Reply to  A Heretic

    I’ve been entertaining the thought if there is actually nothing like symptomatic COVID as the symptoms are identical to flu, including possibly lethal pneumonia as complication, and considering that certainly nobody who tested positive for Sars-CoV2 has been tested for anything else which could have caused the illness.

    In maximum idiocy mode – something I believe humans to be totally capable of – Sars-CoV2 is a human coronavirus which has been with us for a long time already, is prefectly harmless and someone just happened to create a test for it last year because he (Drosten) was looking for something like SARS.

    NB: I don’t claim that this is true, as I have no information on this. It’s just a possibilty.

    Last edited 3 years ago by RW
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    TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
    TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
    3 years ago
    Reply to  RW

    If deaths are higher from non-covid cause (such as dry-tinder, i.e. low 2019 mortality) but we test EVERYBODY for a largely endemic disease then that’s exactly what it would look like.

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    Fearless
    Fearless
    3 years ago
    Reply to  RW

    Professor Dolores Cahill has been saying something similar for over a year now – that if you sequence what these PCR tests are amplifying you’ll probably find that they’re strains of influenza A, influenza B, an adenovirus etc… basically one of your common-or-garden viruses. She had talked about doing some sequencing of ‘positive’ COVID PCR tests to find out once and for all. I’d love to know if she did, but I doubt anyone would listen to her as they’d probably claim that she ‘spiked’ the sample (pun intended!) to give the result she wanted!

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    me too
    me too
    3 years ago
    Reply to  Fearless

    Last year (March? April?) Hoffmann La Roche launched a kit for testing and distinguish between corona OR influenza A OR influenza B. Never more heard of it.

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    stewart
    stewart
    3 years ago
    Reply to  RW

    I frequently ask people “what is covid” when they mention it in conversation.

    After a moment of confusion, some people are honest and admit they don’t know, some say it’s a virus and I correct them that the virus is apparently called SarsCOV2 and that covid is the disease caused by the virus.

    They might then have a go at listing symptoms at which point I ask them what the difference between that and the cold or the flu is which usually ends the conversation.

    Nobody seems to know what covid is, but they seem to know it’s really dangerous and very infectious. And the delta variant is very very infectious.

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    Fearless
    Fearless
    3 years ago
    Reply to  stewart

    I ask my mother-in-law that same question sometimes when I can no longer take her blind obedience to the narrative. When I point out that SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated and characterised, that the sequence the Drosden PCR test is based on is a hypothetical one provided by the CCP, and that multiple FOI requests to different governments have always resulted in the admission that there is no verified gene sequence of the magical SARS-CoV-2 virus… her reply is always to instantly dismiss me. I have a PhD in microbiology and PCR tests used to be my bread-and-butter until I left academia a few years ago. But nope, I might as well be an eccentric nutter spouting Ancient Greek at her. Last time I tried to reason with her she took great pleasure in announcing to me that “COVID came from sewers in Spain!” That was a new one on me!

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    loopDloop
    loopDloop
    3 years ago
    Reply to  Fearless

    Ah, the mother-in-law. Good luck winning that argument.

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    marebobowl
    marebobowl
    3 years ago
    Reply to  Fearless

    😂😂😂😂

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    RickH
    RickH
    3 years ago
    Reply to  stewart

    There has been deliberate confusion between ‘SARS-CoV-2’ and ‘Covid’ – the latter being a possible auto-immune dysfunction that can result from infection.

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    chris c
    chris c
    3 years ago
    Reply to  stewart

    Well I managed to not get the flu and only had about two colds in sixteen years (for which I credit my butchers, veg shops, farm shops and the fish van).

    However I DID get something distinctly weird in December 2019, Weirdness 1 is that I caught it. Weirdness 2 is that I developed a prolonged cough, especially at night, the like of which I never had before.

    It was significantly different from any cold or flu I had previously. Many people had the same thing around the same time. All survived and the few who contacted their doctor were told there was a “strange virus” doing the rounds. If only it has stayed that way . . .

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    JayBee
    JayBee
    3 years ago
    Reply to  A Heretic

    Yep. And the FDA basically confirmed that, when it announced the withdrawal of approval for the Drosten test, because it cannot distinguish between Covid and the flu.
    But noone cares or connects the dots.
    And this is still ignored, the test still being used and this is, as Mike Yeadon noted, the ery same test with which the efficiency of the vaccines and as such todays approval is based upon.
    But noone cares or connects the dots.

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    NonCompliant
    NonCompliant
    3 years ago

    I thought influenza was stopped by masks and other superstitious nonsense?

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    thinkcriticall
    thinkcriticall
    3 years ago

    New analysis from Israel’s leading doctors: In summary: the non-vaccinated “are NOT a factor that perpetuates the pandemic and endangers the public”.Other papers and ways to donate to the cause can be found at: https://pecc-il.org/

    unvaccinated2.jpg
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    Bella Donna
    Bella Donna
    3 years ago

    ..

    image_2021-08-23_155258.png
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    stewart
    stewart
    3 years ago

    Are the flu vaccines particularly effective even in a good year?

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    loopDloop
    loopDloop
    3 years ago
    Reply to  stewart

    No, they are a huge scam. Their effectiveness is on a par with the extent to which garlic protects against vampires. Serious adverse reactions to flu vaccine can be a nightmare. One shocking example account is a chapter in the book Vaccine Epidemic by Habakus and Holland.

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    sevart
    sevart
    3 years ago
    Reply to  stewart

    If polio outbreaks are caused by vaccines (as admitted even by mainstream media). I don’t think it would be a stretch to assume that the flu is also caused by vaccines.

    Most commercials that air in the United States are big pharma ads. If people were healthy, big pharma and all the alphabet agencies closely connected to them would have no reason to exist.

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    mishmash
    mishmash
    3 years ago

    But there is no flu anymore, so why would I need a flu shot?

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    JohnK
    JohnK
    3 years ago
    Reply to  mishmash

    Maybe ‘flu will get it’s mojo back – after all, it lost out last winter, didn’t it? If you look at the stats, there appears to have been a certain amount of ‘transfer’ from it to Covid-19, at least on paper.

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    RickH
    RickH
    3 years ago

    Truth told, ‘flu vaccines are not particularly effective, anyway. Another example of over-hype PR.

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    mishmash
    mishmash
    3 years ago

    A colleague told me today that his eldest son of 22 years went for his first jab over the weekend, less than 24 hours later he was hospitalised with a blood clot in his lung.

    Another new colleague also told me his vaccine story today. A former care home worker who was hospitalised with seizures after taking the first jab in January, his doctors have advised him to never take another vaccine. He left that job before the October deadline for care home staff vaccine mandates, essentially forced out of the care profession for being unable to withstand another shot of poison.

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    helenf
    helenf
    3 years ago

    They could have found a better hand model 🤮. Maybe he’s got long covid.

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    Tee Ell
    Tee Ell
    3 years ago

    But over the past year, surveillance of flu strains dropped to a fraction of normal levels as medical resources were turned over to monitoring Covid

    It’d be interesting to know more about this.

    Last edited 3 years ago by Tee Ell
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    Pavlov Bellwether
    Pavlov Bellwether
    3 years ago

    Never had the flu. Never had the flu ‘vaccine’. Six decades of relying on my own immune system. Works for me. Others can make their own choices. Useful information, links and resources: https://www.LCAHub.org/

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    IanC
    IanC
    3 years ago
    Reply to  Pavlov Bellwether

    And so say all of us! Ditto sir.

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    Nessimmersion
    Nessimmersion
    3 years ago

    Denniger maintains the pfizer approval of the pfake vaxx in Murka means:
    ”
    this “full approval” voids all other vaccine EUAs for Covid-19.  That is, under the law the Moderna and J&J instantly became illegal to offer or use within the United States.

    The makers can apply for full authorization, of course, but the EUAs are void as of this morning and under black letter law cannot be administered to anyone in the United States as they are now unlicensed and unlawful products in human beings until and unless they are given full approval themselves.  No medical provider can offer or administer any other than the Pfizer Covid-19 shot in the United States as of the moment of that approval.”

    Maybe the scammers in trying to be clever have miscalculated again?

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243355

    Last edited 3 years ago by Nessimmersion
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    chris c
    chris c
    3 years ago
    Reply to  Nessimmersion

    Christ! That’s something I hadn’t considered. Makes commercial sense if not medical sense.

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    Annie
    Annie
    3 years ago

    So the NHS will be overwhelmed. Just as it is every year.
    Flu happens every winter. The NHS is never ready for it. And this year flu is likely to be worse thanks to lockdowns, as was entirely predictable from the outset.

    And, flu apart, peoo,eget ill all the time. The NHS can’t cope with ill people.

    How nice it was for the NHS when only one disease mattered. But they made a bloody horlicks of that as well.

    Last edited 3 years ago by Annie
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    IanC
    IanC
    3 years ago
    Reply to  Annie

    The No Hope Service. Never sounded more fitting.

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    bowlsman
    bowlsman
    3 years ago

    Yada yada yada, scare scare scare………………

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    Zoomer@14
    Zoomer@14
    3 years ago

    Total focus, total brainwashing, total control. Refuse to engage in the fake virus debate and all the garbage attached to it…
    It just keeps going and going because we give it so much attention.

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    mummyfunk
    mummyfunk
    3 years ago

    well timed article to coincide with this..
    note this part
    “The company aims to launch human trials for a modified RNA flu vaccine in the third quarter of the year.”
    also check the bottom of the article..
    “In addition to vaccines, Pfizer continues to develop an antiviral protease inhibitor known as PF-07321332 that will potentially reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms when administered early in the case of the disease.”
    can i place a bet somewhere that this is their copy of ivermectin..
    how much $$$$$ will they make on that ?????
    Pfizer highlights COVID-19 and flu vaccine strategy in Q2 earnings call – Drug Discovery and Development

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    IanC
    IanC
    3 years ago

    Hadn’t you heard? COVID time machine, next week’s headline news today.

    COVID Time machine.JPG
    Last edited 3 years ago by VAX FREE IanC
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