China is clearly feeling the heat on all fronts as it steps up its propaganda war in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic. Many have wondered if the Chinese virus pandemic will be China’s “Chernobyl” moment: a disaster so monstrous and so damaging to the rest of the
As a billion Chinese already know, China’s totalitarian panopticon state misses nothing. As millions of Chinese dissidents also know, the communists resolutely seek out and punish anything and everything the Party disapproves of. Countless Chinese students have learned the hard way that the Party’s tentacles reach all the
China is behaving with imperial arrogance as governments around the world echo the fury of ordinary citizens at Beijing for its lies and cover-ups which (perhaps intentionally) unleashed the Wuhan pandemic on the world. Having grown used to bullying and punishing its own people the instant they step out of
By Heinlein’s rule, the Australian and New Zealand arts and media are riddled with incompetent whores. Which I, for one, wouldn’t argue with. And, if the incompetent whores in the New Zealand media get their way, they’ll all be government sugar-babies. In Australia, the incompetent whore squad
One thing that has been obvious about the response to the Chinese virus pandemic is how willing the public has been to co-operate with government restrictions that would normally be associated with totalitarian states. There have been some rumblings, particularly with over-zealous police fining people for anything from washing their
The bovver boys at Trades Hall might represent less than one in five Australian workers, but they sure know how to keep themselves in the headlines. Whether it’s the CFMEU’s John Setka going the biffo with his missus or former Labor leader Bill Shorten selling out low-paid cleaners
The Morrison government has hardened its rhetoric against China in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic, as well as effectively abolishing the threshold for Foreign Investment Review. If only it would start showing as much trouser as it does mouth. Only last week, I reported on Chinese companies buying
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms will be talking about the latest developments in the Tasman this week. This week we’ll be talking about the ban on non-essential books, and the quickly deteriorating treasury books, along with much else. We’re back streaming on the Right Minds channel again.
Now, don’t go getting too worked up, BFD readers. I mean, when I read the headline, Australia to ‘reconnect’ with NZ first, my curiosity was immediately piqued, too. But, no, Scott Morrison isn’t working on some dastardly scheme to bring down New Zealand’s coalition government by getting
You can always tell when someone is telling the truth about China just by observing how furiously China attacks them. Or, if they’re a Chinese citizen, by how quickly they disappear or how excoriating and grovelling their subsequent “self-criticism” and apologies are. Peter Dutton is not a Chinese citizen
Satire site The Babylon Bee is having a field day as students across the Western world are being effectively forced into home-schooling. “Majority Of Homeschoolers Arrive At College Woefully Unprepared For Gender Studies” quipped one headline. Another related that pubic school teachers were worried that “Homeschooling Is Making Kids More
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com In 2001 Professor Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology and director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, predicted up to 150,000 could die in the U.K. alone from mad cow disease. Panicked politicians and ballistic bureaucrats ordered
When I wrote, in the early days of the Chinese virus, that “the real sheeple are the panic-stricken lemmings of the elite”, I argued that the common folk were keeping calm and carrying on, while the elite were losing their minds. I naturally felt a bit foolish when, just days
The time is long past for a far-reaching inquiry into the administration of justice in the Australian state of Victoria. Victorian police and public officials have been embarrassed and exposed by a series of public scandals and unsavoury revelations. Police and government politicians strenuously denied that the state had a
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com We’ve been sold a bill of goods by global agencies and national and state governments, aided by a media ever salivating for sensation. We’ve been compliant little citizens, setting aside our cultural scepticism of authority and replacing our freedom and ability to think for
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms continue the endless lockdown shows by bringing you the breakdown of the week’s news.
