The great nudge

When we think of oppressive regimes, we immediately think of the Stalinist model portrayed in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the heavy-handed thought control associated with Hitler’s Reich or Mao’s China. But where the old propaganda was loud, crude and often lethal, the contemporary style of thought control takes the form of a gentle nudging towards orthodoxy – a gentle push that gradually closes off one’s critical faculties and leads one to comply with gently given directives. Governments around the world, including in the UK, notes the Guardian, have been embracing this approach with growing enthusiasm.

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US White Supremacists Responsible For Low Vax Uptake Among Aussie Aborigines Says In The Know Pol

The leader of West Australia has suggested that US-based “white supremacist groups” may be to blame for low vaccination rates among Aboriginals, claiming indigenous peoples have been targeted with anti-vaxx propaganda.

“There’s been some misinformation provided to Aboriginal people from people who do not have their best interests at heart,” West Australia Premier Mark McGowan told reporters on Thursday, adding that he had “heard from one Aboriginal person who said white supremacist groups are sending information to Aboriginal people that they shouldn’t get vaccinated.”

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FUREY: Ontario hitting 1,000 cases just isn’t the big deal it used to be

The news on Friday that Ontario had once again crossed the threshold of reporting 1,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 was met with predictable cries from some corners that we are now presented with an urgent problem that compels us to “do something” — that “something” being the restricting, in some way or another, of our daily lives.

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Canadian charity employee working from home sacked for refusing to take COVID shot

OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – A 27-year-old employee of the Ottawa-based charity the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) was fired after refusing to take the abortion-tainted COVID jabs, despite the fact he worked from home.

Gabriel Wilson, who works in the CBS organ tissue and donation branch, was told on October 29 that his accommodation request for a religious exemption under the charity’s “COVID Vaccination Policy” was denied.

h/t Marvin

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Ontario reports 1053 new Covid cases … and WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet

Ontario reports 1053 new Covid cases … and WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet

Ontario reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for second straight day

For the second straight day the province of Ontario is reporting more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases.

Health officials confirmed 1,053 new infections on Saturday – a slight increase from the 1,031 that was reported on Friday.


WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet as Covid variant spreads

The Omicron variant has been detected in at least 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the World Health Organization has said, amid warnings that it could damage the global economic recovery.

The United States and Australia became the latest countries to confirm locally transmitted cases of the variant, as Omicron infections pushed South Africa’s total cases past 3 million.


And 3 doses was always the plan!

COVID-19 vaccines: Do we really need boosters?

Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases faculty member at the University of Toronto, said “semantics matter,” adding that COVID-19 boosters should really just be referred to as a third dose.

Bogoch said many vaccines are administered in three doses, and pointed to the Hepatitis B vaccine as an example.

“So I think we should be thinking of this as a three-dose vaccine series,” he told CTVNews.ca in early November.

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Omicron Triggers ‘Unprecedented’ COVID Surge Hitting Under Children Under Age 5 in South Africa

The “highly transmissible” Omicron variant of coronavirus ripping through South Africa is putting disproportionately large numbers of children under 5 years old in hospitals, a top South African government medical adviser said Friday.

The alarming development raises the prospect of a new global battle cycle against the virus, given that the new variant has already spread to dozens of countries. The South African scientists also said the new variant was spreading much quicker than any previous wave of the coronavirus.

How convenient! (Does anyone actually believe this article?)

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Bette Midler: Donald Trump ‘Should Be Arrested for Attempted Murder’ of Joe Biden

Bette Midler is calling on authorities to arrest former President Donald Trump for attempted murder, claiming Trump deliberately tried to infect Joe Biden with the coronavirus during a televised debate last year.

In an impassioned tweet early Friday, Bette Midler claimed Trump knew “full well he was positive” with COVID-19 before the debate, but deliberately turned up too late to be tested. Trump then “screeched, sputtered, spit, and foamed at the mouth, hoping to infect Joe.”

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Anthony Fauci’s dangerous narcissism

Science can’t be above questioning

For nearly two years now, Anthony Fauci has been an object of fascination, adoration, even worship in an America both frightened and polarised by the coronavirus. From the beginning, the Left identified him as the public health expert to trust: the one member of Donald Trump’s Covid response team who was willing to contradict him in public, our own personal mole in the White House, a voice for science and sanity in the face of the president’s bluster and incompetence.

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Italian man tries to dodge Covid vaccine wearing fake arm

An Italian man is facing charges of fraud after turning up for his Covid-19 vaccine wearing a fake arm.

So determined was he to dodge the jab but still obtain a health pass, the anti-vaxxer may have paid hundreds of euros for the silicone prosthetic.

The bizarre episode at a vaccine hub in Biella, a town close to Turin in the northern Piedmont region, came a week after Italy announced measures barring unvaccinated people from a host of social, cultural and sporting activities.

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On COVID restrictions, our governments keep firing up the gaslights and shifting the goalposts

Listen closely and one might be able to discern the unmistakable sounds of our elected and unelected officials frantically firing up the gaslights and moving the goalposts on COVID restrictions and vaccinations.

It was a precipitous but inevitable shift from “two weeks to flatten the curve” to get the jab or lose your job, and unsurprisingly, there is still more to come.

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All Canadians over 50 should get a COVID-19 booster shot, immunization committee says in new guidance

In a new report issued today, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is now strongly recommending all Canadians over the age of 50 and other vulnerable groups like health-care workers, Indigenous peoples and those living in congregate care settings get a third dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

The committee, an independent body composed of volunteer vaccine experts, is also now recommending the younger cohort — Canadians aged 18 to 49 — get a third mRNA shot at least six months after they got their second.

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Liberal weasels offer deal to allow select MPs to see documents on fired ChiCom Winnipeg germ lab scientists

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

OTTAWA — Parliamentarians could finally get a look at documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory — which the Liberals went to court to keep secret — under a new deal offered by the government.

Whatever is in there must be awfully embarrassing.

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