“While the media talks a lot of the 150,000 deaths, perhaps they should have been talking about the number of people who died ‘of Covid’ not ‘with Covid’. That was just 17,371 up to the end of quarter three 2021.” Dan Wootton, 17 January 2022. A clip of Dan Wootton on GB News, which has… Read More »
In 1987 Fisher Price released the PXL2000 toy, ultra low tech, video camera that recorded monochromatic, low quality, video on audio cassettes. A commercial flop at the time, its now highly prized by film makers and artists for the uniquely grainy, antique, mysterious look it creates on film. The post In 1987 Fisher Price released… Read More »
In 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa farmers were asked what they were growing was made into, they didn’t know. The farmers knew cocoa was some type of food but they had never heard of or tasted chocolate until reporters brought them a chocolate bar to try. The post In 2014 when impoverished Ivory Coast… Read More »
A Facebook post falsely claims the actor Samuel L. Jackson can be seen in a photo of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. playing pool in 1966. A caption states: “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shooting pool in 1966. Samuel L. Jackson, who was a freshman at Morehouse College at the time, is in this photo.”… Read More »
Several posts on Facebook make the following claim: “So, there are continuous 🚛 queues at Dover that can be seen from space. 🌚 Longer than the channel itself. They can’t, however, be seen on the BBC. 📺” Both were posted on 22 January 2022. Could the lorries be seen from space? Satellite imagery is so… Read More »
An Instagram post suggests the World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab is related to the Rothschild family. The post includes two photos: one is a photo of a woman with the caption “Marianne Schwab, née Rothschild”. The post appears to imply Klaus Schwab is related, via Marianne Schwab, to the Rothschild family. The other image… Read More »
