The "incredibly high" excess death rate in 2022 should be urgently investigated by the Government, Australia's top actuarial body has said.

According to new analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data by the Actuaries Institute, there were 15,400 excess deaths during the first eight months of the year, with around one third having no link to Covid.

This is 13% higher than expected, which is an "incredibly high number for mortality" according to Karen Cutter, spokeswoman for the institute's COVID-19 Mortality Working Group. It is "not clear" what is driving the increase, she said. "Mortality doesn't normally vary by more than 1-2%, so 13% is way higher than normal level."

"I'm not aware [of anything comparable] in the recent past but I haven't gone back and looked [historically]. They talk about the flu season of 2017 being really bad, and the mortality there was 1% higher than normal. So it's well outside the range of normal."

According to the raw data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were 128,797 deaths from January 1st to August 31st, which was 18,671 or 17% higher than the historical average. Of those, 7,727 or 41% were attributed to Covid, leaving 10,944 non-Covid excess deaths.

The reason for the difference between the raw ABS data and the actuary figures is that, unlike with ONS data in the U.K. which use a five-year average baseline, the actuaries use a modelled baseline for calculating excess deaths. This aims to take into account trends like an ageing and growing population and improving health outcomes. The actuaries acknowledge that, compared to using the 2015-19 baseline, this results in a higher baseline and thus fewer excess deaths.

On Thursday, three members of Twitter's Trusty & Safety Council quit the company in a huff, claiming in a tweeted screed that the "safety and wellbeing of Twitter's users are on the decline" since Elon Musk took over.

The individuals in question - Anne Collier, Eirliani Abdul Rahman, and Lesley Podesta (niece of John Podesta) - wrote about how they've worked tirelessly on 'digital safety' - with Rahman proudly serving on the Council's "Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Prevention advisory group."

Except - these three beacons of virtue apparently didn't do much when it came to pedophiles running rampant on the platform - which led several major brands to pull campaigns with the company shortly before Musk's acquisition.

Ukraine's domestic security agency, the SBU, conducted a new series of raids on Orthodox Christian churches in northeastern Kharkov Region on Saturday. The operation, which targeted 14 religious institutions, comes amid Kiev's crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the largest denomination in the country, over its alleged links to Russia.

The SBU directorate in Kharkov Region claimed it had conducted "counterintelligence activities" as part of the agency's efforts to "counter the subversive activities of Russian special services in our state."

The raids are also meant "to prevent the use of religious communities as a cell of the 'Russian world'" the SBU noted in a post on Facebook, adding that it was searching for individuals who may be undermining Ukraine's sovereignty as well as for various prohibited acts.

The explosion of protests in Iran that began in September were not about the Islamic Republic's "hijab law" specifically, but about the abuses and excesses of the so-called morality police - the Gasht-e-Ershad (also known simply as Ershad, or in English, the 'guidance patrol') - against regular Iranian women who were considered to be immodestly garbed.

Public disgruntlement was triggered by the widely-publicized death of Mahsa Amini, who was apprehended by the Ershad and died while in their custody.

Although subsequent video footage released by Iranian police authorities showed that Amini had collapsed herself - likely due to her personal health history, as her official autopsy indicates, and not from alleged "beatings" - Iranians argued that the stress of it all may have triggered that collapse.

When Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, agreed to be interviewed by the BBC in December 2021, he probably saw it as an opportunity for a bit of free advertising and PR for his company and its Covid vaccine. And so it turned out, apparently. An undemanding set of questions from the docile Fergus Walsh gave Dr. Bourla the chance to opine unchallenged on all things Covid and Covid vaccination, and no doubt communicate a few of his company's key marketing messages.

However, UsforThem, an organisation which campaigns for the needs and rights of children, saw things differently. Its researchers noticed that during his interview Dr. Bourla had made statements about Covid and the use of Covid vaccines in children that were misleading, unbalanced and not capable of substantiation. They took these concerns to the U.K. regulatory body, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (the PMCPA), and a recent article in the Telegraph reports that the PMCPA agreed with them.

Mainstream media has been on a deathbed for the better part of a decade as newsrooms shuttered, and more importantly, trust with the American people collapsed because of the frequently biased reporting and spread of disinformation. Legacy media is at the mercy of big corporations and the government and is entirely out of touch with everyday folks.

The best thing that ever happened to mainstream media was the Trump presidency. The former president kept the American people on the edge of their seats, waiting for the next comments from Trump, which boosted news organizations' views and subscriptions.

But now, in the Biden era, the painful death of the newsroom has returned, as The Wall Street Journal reported that the Jeff Bezos-owned left-leaning publication The Washington Post had suffered a massive loss of subscribers to the tune of 500,000.

The Tory party's move to fall back in love with wind energy, despite its manifest disadvantages of cost, unreliability and inefficient use of land, is a death wish. They will soon rediscover just how unpopular wind "farms" (who thought up that euphemism for these open-air power stations, incidentally?) are with voters in rural constituencies. Opinion polls now persuade them that years of pro-wind propaganda have changed the public's mind. I would not bet on it: these things may be popular in north London, but not in northern England.

Northumberland, where I live, thinly populated and windy, is especially blighted, being a big net exporter of electricity on windy days. A passionate, cross-party coalition of politicians from the county formed in the House of Lords - including a bishop - to object to the expansive vistas of the Cheviots and Bamburgh Castle being ruined by squadrons of spinning fans. I've rarely been involved in something so popular.

The objections are not just Nimbyism. Though few people enjoy having their view spoiled by structures that stand up to four times as tall as Nelson's column, or the flicker their shadows cause on sunny days and the hum of their blades, the impact on nature is horrible.

The mainstream media (MSM) wants the world to believe that climate change has turned us into rotisserie chickens. However, real-world temperatures are not warming to dangerous levels, nor are they going to.

Australia's ABC news, for example, tells its readers that the "influence of climate change ensures nearly every season is now warmer than normal." Yet, in 2022 Australia experienced the coldest spring in 30 years! Major cities like Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra recorded their coldest maximum temperatures.

This mismatch between reality and the MSM narrative has been widening in recent years. Computer models are becoming increasingly erroneous in their predictions of future weather and misleading policymakers into believing that doomsday is imminent.

Angela Reading informed other parents of children at the North Hanover Township Elementary School District on Facebook that kids grade 4 and up were being instructed by their teachers to research 'pansexuality' and other gender-related topics.

On Wednesday, Tucker Carlson highlighted a story about a New Jersey mom who was told she was being "monitored" by local law enforcement after military personnel at the Joint Base (McGuire, Fort Dix, Lakehurst) took issue with her social media posts about the sexualization of children at her child's school.

Angela Reading informed other parents of children at the North Hanover Township Elementary School District on Facebook that kids grade 4 and up were being instructed by their teachers to research "pansexuality" and other gender-related topics.

A lynch mob in Mexico targeted two gunmen who had just killed a local politician in recent days. The mob managed to capture one of the gunmen who they beat and stripped before hanging him from a tree as local police watched.

The case took place recently in Cardenas, Tabasco, where two gunmen shot and killed Armando Villegas, a former delegate for the municipality. Locals captured on cell phone video a few seconds of when the unidentified gunman hung from a tree.