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@karamballes
Aug 19, 2022 • 19 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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🧵Telegraph article on excess deaths, tries to dismiss the possibility covid increases risk of cardiovascular issues to focus on lockdown harms
2/ First question, if lockdown is the cause then surely we should see huge excess numbers in China, Australia, New Zealand etc,
3/ Circulatory issues and diabetes the main cause of excess deaths

Suggests it could be alcohol and work from home
4/ NHS is struggling
Government underfunding mentioned? No
Staff absence rates, still high due to covid? No
5/ Let's see some of the experts, ah Dingwall...
6/ Dingwall...
7/ Next one
When covid was killing a similar number of people there was clamouring for restrictions, cutting covid transmission would of course help cut these wait times, but the Telegraph opposes those measures

Article doesn't offer any solutions
8/ Next expert Carl Heneghan, demanding an investigation
9/ Heneghan calls for an investigation of death certificates

His CEBM is now affiliated to Pandata which is claiming vaccines are cause of excess deaths
10/ Pandata, Herd immunity lobbyists, Trump administration advisers, Republican governor candidate and a collection of prominent antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists
11/ Heneghan knows exactly how his comments would be interpreted by some, actually it's quite odd Knapton doesn't find time to say there's no evidence vax is responsible, almost like they want people to make that interpretation
12/ We do get one voice quoted suggesting covid as a cause but considering the rest of the article readers are led to believe this is a fringe view
13/ Then we have Jefferson, also at CEBM...
14/ Remember many of the harms of lockdown crowd in 2020 predicted we would already have 250,000 to 500,000 lockdown deaths by now,
15/ #HARTleaks show Knapton who wrote this piece is seen as a good route to getting antivax disinformation into the mainstream
16/ And what a more nuanced view on excess deaths looks like
17/ I see Sikora is being touted in Toby Youngs Daily Sceptic today
18/ But it can't be lockdown harms because the talking scrotum has already concluded excess deaths are due to boosters
19/ Perhaps Sikora would like to mention his private healthcare interests that took up covid contracts to support NHS and has now gone bust?

Don't worry he got paid

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Aug 26
🧵So Musk has decided to go off on one about the UK again

Migrants, Rape Gangs, Lucy Connolly, tweeting Tommy Robinson, and backing Rupert Lowe over Nigel Farage

Just before Farage goes to the US in September and as big antimigrant protests are planned shortly afterwards Image
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2/ Some similarities to before the Southport attack and subsequent riots, creating a narrative and setting conditions to prime potential rioters for the next event that can be used as a match to start the fires
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3/ Musk offers to fund legal actions in the UK Image
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Aug 23
1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union
Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used Image
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2/ The FSU was set up with support of Peter Thiel
James Orr a founding member of FSU is also on the Edmund Burke Foundation's board which organises NatCon, that Orr is also on the board of

JD Vance is Thiels minion, previously spent a record $15 million on getting Vance elected
3/ Vance has been leading the US attacks on free speech in the UK

The FSU has been busy backing anti-abortion and anti-trans legal cases, working alongside Christian Concern and US ADF, an important NatCon group

Vance is linked to NatCon
Read 11 tweets
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Jul 13
Why is @Tony_Diver giving a full page interview to Malhotra in the Telegraph?
The self-titled "leading cardiologist" has become an antivax hero, who has to publish his papers via his own journal because they are as dodgy as anything Wakefield put out

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The platforming of disinformation grifters in mainstream papers, particularly Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, GB News and TalkTv is contributing to the increase in vax hesitancy
People will die because of shoddy journalism from likes of @Tony_Diver
@Tony_Diver 3/ Describing Malhotra as "serious public prominence" and promoting his antivax papers without pointing out that he set up the journal it's printed in, is frankly dishonest journalism Image
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Jun 6
1/ Telegraph and Toby Young claiming "culture nationalism" being included is the latest attack by Labour on Free Speech is a lie

The Conservatives added this to Prevent in 2023 Image
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2/ From my October 2023 article for @BylineTimes on the updated Prevent training Image
@BylineTimes 3/ While they misrepresent Conservative policy to attack Labour complaining that cultural Nationalism was too broad a term, they didn't have a problem that socialism was also added to Prevent at the same time
bylinetimes.com/2023/10/19/ter…
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Feb 14
1/ So Toby Young, now a member of the house of Lords is directly receiving support from Musk, a member of a foreign government Image
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2/ This is after the FSU jumped onto a case of a teacher appealing against a school for being dismissed for their online posts, the case was being backed by Christian Concern and FDU piggybacked as an intervener Image
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3/ Worth noting the case centred around a petition from CitizenGo, an organisation identified as being part of a US/Russian network designed to undermine sexuality and reproductive rights Image
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Feb 4
🧵Trump 2.0 

While much of the UK media has focused on DEI, tariffs and confirmation hearings there's been less focus on what appears to be an attack on the US constitution, purges of people and scientific information, and efforts to supress opposition and scrutiny
2/ First a quick look at the pardoned Jan 6 rioters as an example

3/ The interim Attorney General for DC had defended some of the rioters

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