Dealing with "science denialism" and abolishing cash while "brandishing a face" - UK Column News

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Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022
- Opinion in British Medical Journal: Understanding and neutralising Covid-19 misinformation and disinformation (Wang, et al.)
- Authors criticised in article comments for not having read those they malign: UK Medical Freedom Alliance, HART Group, paediatrician Dr Ros Jones
- Tender P0786 by Birmingham City Council: seeking "national and international genealogy services" provider for locating next of kin regarding funerals
Viewer's summary of real aim:
“After we've dispatched you, we'll send the bill to your family, whether you speak English or not. We're not even pretending that we're not collecting data.”
- Free Speech Union says there is still a need to legislate to stop the likes of PayPal cancelling wrongthinkers

- Central Bank of Nigeria brings maximum cash withdrawal ceilings down to the equivalent of $45 a day and pushes its CBDC, the e-Naira, as something much fluffier than other central bank digital currencies
Mike Robinson commentary: And this when nearly half of the Nigerian population still lacks electricity
- Viewer's e-mail: Mastercard now stops domestic British purchases of gold from going through British banks, as a "security risk"
- Der Spiegel reports Germany has outlawed the use of cash and cryptocurrencies to buy real estate, as an "anti-oligarch measure"

- UK Government: UK and USA energy partnership agreed to guarantee supply of huge amounts of American LNG to Britain, on the pretext of stopping dependence on Russia
Institute for Economic Affairs tweet calls for fracking in Britain:
“The UK will pay a premium to import US fracked gas, while sitting on 50 to 100 years of our own reserves”

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