- “Covid passports proving vaccine status to be released for summer holidays” – The Department for Transport intends that vaccine passports be available to British travellers by May 17th, according to the Telegraph
- “Is No. 10 planning a vaccine passport ruse?” – There is “an impression among Conservative MPs that the UK Government has already made up its mind on vaccine passports”, writes Isabel Hardman for the Spectator, and the forthcoming vote will be about both international and UK use
- “Blair’s plan for saving AstraZeneca’s reputation” – Blair tells the Government to do a better spin job on the AZ vaccine
- “Boris should heed Blair’s advice on the Covid vaccine data” – The Government “would do well to take Blair’s advice”, says Ross Clark in the Spectator, “and make full datasets on infections, hospitalisations and deaths available among vaccinated people before the information is winkled out of it”
- “Mother’s legs erupt in agonising blood-filled blisters ‘after getting AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine’” – MailOnline reports an unusual reaction to the vaccine
- “Lockdown has allowed British people to indulge their curtain-twitching vices” – “Quite a lot of the country would be comfortable extending lockdown indefinitely if it meant people they didn’t like never got to enjoy themselves again,” writes Joel Golby in the Guardian
- “Fearmongering, false narrative and profiteering: The truth about Covid” – A transcript of PANDA co-founder Nick Hudson’s presentation on Covid, courtesy of the Conservative Woman
- “BBC is More or Less fooling us on vaccine risk” – The latest episode of the BBC’s stats programme glossed over vaccine risk, according to Jeff Williams in the Conservative Woman
- “The rule of law has broken down” – Writing for the New Statesman, Rachel Cunliffe profiles Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch, who explains that COVID-19 has led to the creation of a surveillance state
- “The Covid Consensus – The New Politics of Global Inequality by Toby Green” – Jo Nash reviews Toby Green’s new book
- “Sir Keir Starmer thrown out of a pub” – Watch Andrew Lawrence’s fun take on Sir Keir’s eviction from the pub in Bath
- “An Urgent Warning to the World” | Perspectives on the Pandemic” – An interview with Dr. Mike Yeadon covering concerns about the jabs, and the threat of digital health passports
- “Lockdown closure pays for French restaurants” – Restaurant federations in France say that many of their members have seen their revenue increase over the past 12 months, the Times reports, thanks to the generosity of state support
- “Clashes outside German parliament as government approves new Covid powers for Merkel” – Violent clashes broke out after police intervened in a demonstration of 8,000 people against Merkel’s new lockdown powers, the Telegraph reports
- “Covid talk: A lesson in linguistics” – “There has been a long list of ‘new’ terms that have irked me,” writes Jody Kasner in the Jerusalem Post. “Starting from day one and ‘flattening the curve’.”
- “‘We are not going to restrict freedom’: South Dakota governor is latest to ban ‘un-American’ vaccine passports” – Governor Kristi Noem has signed an executive order to ban vaccine passports in South Dakota, RT reports
- “The COVID-19 Disaster That Did Not Happen in Texas” – In a feature for Reason, Jacob Sullum investigates why Covid cases have fallen more than 50% in Texas
- “U.S. adds 116 countries to its ‘Do Not Travel’ advisory list” – The U.S. State Department has added at least 116 countries this week to its “Level Four: Do Not Travel” advisory list, according to Reuters. the countries include the UK, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico and Germany
- “First jab of Chinese Sinovac vaccine does little good, says Chile” – Chilean scientists are warning that the protection offered by the Sinovac jab is “very weak” until after the second dose, according to the Times. This embarrassment suggests conspiracy theories involving China aren’t true
- “Summer’s cultural events and festivals are a vibrant, valued sector of our economy” – “The live events industry does not require another lump sum from the Culture Recovery Fund,” say Mark Harper MP and colleagues. It requires insurance against the risk that restrictions are re-imposed
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Well after his nasty propagandist dig at dissenting protesters the other day (calling them “antivaxxers” and joining vermin like Piers Morgan in opportunist attacks on them), Neil is pretty clearly on the wrong side, unusually. Mind you, he’s been pretty much a covid collaborator from the beginning, as far as I’ve seen.
So, time for him to retire. after a pretty good lifetime run of often being on the right side of the issues. Like Toby, too keen to stay “respectable” to be right, in the new world order.
And give than Fox News has been more honest and more resistant to the coronapanic nonsense than any British mainstream broadcaster (TalkRadio perhaps aside), by far, a British Fox News is probably what we need.
Piers Morgan who is suffering with Covid after getting “vaccines”.
I prefer Colin Brazier anyway.
Is Talk Radio the same as the Talk Radio that used to be on analogue radio and got rebranded as Talk Sport? I remember James Whale used to work for them too. A bit of a mouthy so and so…
I think so. I occasionally catch it in the car and I had the misfortune to get Whale bloviating about vaccine dissenters the other day, so TalkRadio are far from solidly on the side of truth and justice. But some of their presenters at least allowed some dissenting truth to be heard occasionally, which put them head and shoulders above the likes of the BBC.
I agree about Fox News and also about Talk Radio. Julia Hartley-Brewer gets a lot of stick here, mainly as she is pretty shaky on the vaccine issue, but she’s brutal in her cross-examination of those pushing the narrative, which is almost unheard of.
She’s certainly got more than her fair share of knockers.
Clever enough to get away with in polite company imo….
The only true opponent to the hoax on GB News, as far as I have seen, is Neil Oliver who gets a slot on Saturday nights. His opening statement is always worth watching, however, the subjects that are covered afterwards are dull and the usual guest panellists are very boring covidians that drag the show down – something I’ve wondered was a deliberate editorial decision to counter Oliver’s clout.
All the other presenters are pro-double-jabs who I simply don’t have time for. So on the balance of things, I wouldn’t miss GB News if it sunk.
“UK orders extra Covid ‘vaccines’ “.
I ask again, what do scientists who are independent from big pharma and their
proxies have to say about these “vaccines”?
Personally I think any reports or studies on these ‘vaccines’ with any possible link to the pharmaceutical industry should come with a health warning, and certainly on sites like this. There must be plenty of non-pharma linked scientists who have written on and researched the subject.
I mean, I’ve heard of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, and the Campaign for Truth in Medicine, but there must be plenty of others. Any suggestions?
They bleat and gibber abiut variants, then order ‘vaccines’ for over a year ahead…
At least, with flu, they adjust the muck every year. Still doesn’t work very well, but at least they try.
So the FDA has presented information which will result in “suboptimal decisions” (going against their own guidance) on an experimental ‘vaccine’ given (fraudulent) emergency authorisation (for a bug within the range of severe flu). So far so criminal. Now is there any chance that those members of the FDA responsible could be imprisoned for this?
The next financial crisis is coming”.
No joke. And then how will they pay for all those tests and “vaccines”? Quite frankly, I don’t see how this can end well., however good a magic money tree you have. You have suicidal levels of quantitative easing dating back to 2008 (it never really stopped in a meaningful sense); the Bombay BSE at over 54000, up from about 36000 not so long ago; the Dow Jones at over 35000, up from an already high 26000 not so long ago; negative interest rates; stupidly high property prices. And then trillions thrown at trying to micro-manage a virus. On top of this, the world wide working age population is steadily decreasing as a percentage (and simply decreasing in China), which will not change for decades to come. No, this won’t end well, even if the global elite do well out of it. 2008 could be a walk in the park in comparison. Or have I missed something?
Oh, and throw in political instability and increased tensions resulting from this shambles. Remember those wars they used to have in parts of Africa over water? Many millions went hungry in Kenya alone because of these lockdowns. Now how do you suppose this will end?
Absolutely. Here from the Of Two Minds blog, the latest alarming figures showing the extraordinary extent of today’s financial bubble https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug21/fed-insane8-21.html
Yes. To put it another way, “Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. Or the fed seems to expect us to anyway.
Plus ca change
The Konstantin Kisin link doesn’t work for me, just sends me to an empty/stub Daily Sceptics page.
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Again – the mind boggles!
Here it is. Why Don’t They Believe Us? – Tablet Magazine
Thank you. Ironic article – very good read.
There’s that word again, “Brexit” (i.e. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland independence from the Brussels – and Strasbourg, and Luxembourg regime). I don’t know, but I still wonder – were the elites who did quite well out of the EU (and I think of the EU’s “ban” on apricot kernels) a bit panicked when the UK actually did leave the EU in January 2020? Were they looking for a chance to put the “plebs” in their place? Were they perhaps mentally unhinged by the event as some apparently were? Did they want to make jolly well sure that there could be no peasants’ revolt in the future? And could it backfire on them? Over to you, Watt Tyler…
Yes, big business, including Big Pharma, did, and probably continue to do, quite well out of the EU. Though of course they could still find ways to do well out of the UK “outside” of the EU. There has, after all, been a high level of “vaccination” in the UK (which also has a higher rate of reported official “Covid” deaths than other European countries since December).
Apparently that may have been a contributing factor, along with Trump getting elected, and the increasingly unstable and unsustainable financial bubble.
“Interesting” times like this that I wish I could be bothered with food storage etc. ….
Yes, I’ve been doing a bit of that this last year for the first time in my life, ( i usually “travel light”/hate “clutter” ), and/but I keep thinking that I wish I could afford to do more.
Well – I used to read a website over twenty years ago about the coming new world order that promoted food storage. Unfortunately I always was a lazy so and so and haven’t got round to it (though I did buy up a fair bit after the mask mandate just in case). Still, there’s a fair amount of dandelions, acorns etc. round here.
They published a novel about a takeover by the new world order. Worryingly, the current shambles seems worse – less resistance, worse restrictions…
Altogether now – “”You can stick your new world order…”.
Biggest problem with “food prepping” for us lazier and less organised folk (no offence intended), given the tendency for predictions of doom to be constantly revised to later dates, is the need to rotate the stocks as the older stuff goes out of date. You need a systematic approach, and ultimately you need to eat the usually rather unappealing long term storable stuff that is efficient to keep just in case.
That’s assuming you don’t have access to a substantial garden or allotment where you can set up your own mini-subsistence farm.
Thank you! Turns out I had read it already, and tried to add it to my bookmarks but failed, it wouldn’t “stick” to the right article, so not surprising it didn’t here either.
It is amusing, but what it didn’t explain was why so many people do believe that vaccines are safe etc, seeing as they were told all the same fairy stories.
Always people who’ll believe in fairy stories. The number of people who believed in the Cottingley Fairies (and Piltdown Man)…
“Without a vaccine that completely blocks infection and transmission, the prospect of herd immunity goes out the window.”
Well, it depends how you define herd immunity, doesn’t it?
I thought sheep were flocks
Listing an article by Paul Nuki? Seriously? Why not a guest post by Bill Gates?
Sir Nigel Farage was on GB News today with someone from Extinction Rebellion! Free speech and all that…
Nuki’s nonsense: apparantly ‘learning to live with the virus’ is actually learning to live with long term NPIs – face masks and testing.
It’s nice to see some mainstream recognition that ““It is not so much anymore a ‘duty to others’ to get vaccinated but a protection for oneself.” although it goes to piss in the broth by adding “There won’t be any ‘herd immunity wall’ to hide behind.” No herd immunity? It’s clear that natural infection gives better protection!
But the real conclusion to draw from the leaky vaccines are 1) they should only be given to the clinically vulnerable in order to prevent population wide selection pressures for more virulent strains and 2) now that we have good protection for the vulnerable should they wish it there is no excuse for any NPIs at all.
One wouldn’t want to interfere with the long term business plans of the pharmaceutical companies… especially in Tanzania.
Morning, rational extremists.
It’s fascinating to see some of our Comrade-Scientists break ranks and finally tell the truth: that SARS-COV-2 is just another endemic coronavirus; that mass testing for it serves no health purpose; and that the vaccines/”vaccines” do not prevent infection or transmission.
The obvious corollary to that last point is that “vaccine passports” are utterly pointless, but that depends very much on what the point is.
If it’s mind control rather than infection control then they’ll do a bang up job.
““Lockdowns to control Covid no longer justified, SAGE adviser says”” – this is as scientific as saying it’s no longer needed to deep-fry a fencepost to prevent aardvarks in your wardrobe.
What fucking rubbish.
“Deadly blood clots have stopped since under-40s advised not to have AstraZeneca jab”
says The Gatesograph.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/11/deadly-blood-clots-have-stopped-since-under-40s-advised-not/
Well duh! Most of the over 40s have already been “jabbed” with the vaccine and those who were going to die due to a blood clot from the vaccine have probably already done so.
This is hardly a good news story but that is how it is portrayed.
Reading a bit further down the news is not so positive…
And this:
Mrs Dent senior died in May. She was elderly and had other health issues, but after the vaccine she had dizzy spells which she had not had before, and associated falls and her death showed all the symptoms of being a stroke. There’s every possibility the vaccine had something to do with her death but, as with many other elderly deaths, it will be put down to other factors and old age.
Which is of course inconsistent with “deaths with COVID” where COVID ALWAYS gets the blame.
I expect plenty of elderly people died at home (like Mrs Dent senior) or in a care home and never made it to hospital, and will therefore be missed by studies by the likes of Dr Bagot.
However is we look at the spike of deaths coinciding with the rollout of vaccines to the most vulnerable and most elderly, well, there’s certainly a correlation, isn’t there?
Of course the biggest problems with blood clots for our societies, arising out of the mass vaccination outrage, long term, might well be the cumulative effects of the ones that are not initially detected:
Dr Charles Hoffe, D-dimer test
Yes exactly. And since we don’t know how long the vaccines cause the body to continue producing spike proteins, will the damage continue to occur leading to delayed strokes?
One of my neighbours died of a stroke. Well she was in her late eighties, very fat and unhealthy, and hadn’t left her house since March 2020, so no surprise really. I’d like to know though when she was vaxxed.
Another neighbour suffered severe vertigo. Again I’d like to know when she was vaxxed but I don’t want to upset her.
Don’t know how credible this is, but it’s inspiring stuff anyway!
Marines Rebuke Def. Sec.: “No Mandatory Vaccinations for My Marines.”
““There will be no mandatory vaccinations for my Marines,” Gen. Berger said.
In a transcript of the call reviewed by Real Raw News, Gen. Berger lambasted Austin and branded him a traitor.
“Under no circumstances will Marines be compelled to take a potentially hazardous vaccination that the FDA won’t even fully endorse,” Gen. Berger told Austin. “You are a coward and a traitor, manipulated by people pushing bad policy on the men and women who provide security to our nation. Neither you nor your puppet president has authority to enforce such a policy.”
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Then Austin got political: “If conservatives and evangelicals see our fighting forces getting vaccinated, they’ll be more likely to get vaccinated themselves,” Austin said.
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“In case you haven’t heard, Biden’s not in charge of the military, and neither are you. You can sell whatever lies you want to the media. You sold your soul, Lloyd, and I hope you can live with yourself,” Gen. Berger said.
Gen. Berger said he had the support of other Joint Chiefs of Staff and would implore them to ignore unlawful orders coming from the illegitimate administration.
“If a soldier wants the vaccination, fine. If not, he’s not rolling up his sleeve. If you try to forcibly vaccinate even one of my Marines, you better come armed,” Gen. Berger said, and hung up the phone.”
Not sure I’m willing to believe these exchanges. They sound a lot more like what somebody would make up than anything a US General or a SecDef would actually say to each other on a phone line.
Regardless, as I said, it’s inspiring stuff anyway. If it isn’t the truth, then it damned well ought to be!
I think it was found out to be fake, sadly.
Someone pointed out that you only have to look at the sidebar stories to realise it’s obviously a spoof site.
Like I said, though – inspiring stuff anyway.
eh?
DeSantis knows his stuff. He could post here, although he is also a big vaxx fan and believes that they do reduce severe cases and deaths.
In the video, he goes through the seasonal and geographic spread, even within Florida it’s different and Democrat Sunbelt states are seeing similar case rises as Florida.
He thinks SD and masks can do nothing, the virus is in the air- and he certainly isn’y going to lockdown again.
Hospitals see few vaxxed seniors, those they see with Covid mainly came due to other problems, most of the rest is younger and unvaccinated (he didn’t state how sick they are otherwise and/or whether it’s mainly the obese, a disappointing omission).
He promotes EARLY monoclonal antibody therapies and Regeneron for those who become sick.
Florida has the highest vaxx rate in the South, 80% of the 50+ are vaxxed.
he thinks they reduce cases of severe illness.
He and his advisers think that the vaccines might reduce the risk of infection for about 3 months max., thereafter that wanes and as Iceland and Israel with higher vaxx rates and a similar case rise demonstrate, there is therefore no link anymore between vaxx rate and cases, and herd immunity through vaccination just won’t happen with these vaccines.
He should buy a metric shitload of Ivermectin just to be on the safe side.
Herd immunity is possible. It is just the terminology that isn’t clear. It simply means enough people have enough natural immunity to make sure there is no massive outbreak. This is a common cold and the quicker we let the strongest among us get it naturally it will then fade out just as quick.