Today’s face of the day fully is fully vaccinated Whanganui list MP Harete Hipango who took a photo of herself with Voices for Freedom protesters and posted it on Facebook. Her comments with the photo were supportive of freedom of choice. She deleted the post after National leader Christopher
John Mac Ghlionn brownstone.org With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post, and The American Conservative. Dr. Robert Malone is a U.S. virologist and immunologist who has dedicated
Guy Hatchard Tuesday one of my posts on Facebook was taken down. This was concerning not because it was unexpected but because it was expected. The post contained references to scientific studies published in mainstream journals during the last three months of 2021. A few days before, I had a
Last week one of the pioneers of mRNA technology Dr. Robert Malone was permanently banned by Twitter. His crime? Allegedly spreading “misinformation.” Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of the nine original mRNA vaccine patents, which were originally filed in 1989 (including both the idea of mRNA vaccines and the
**This article has been republished. It is one of the most popular articles from 2021. While the rest of the “Team of $55 million” in Big Media were dribbling over a video of Jacinda Ardern walking in Wellington, claiming it went viral, they missed the real viral explosion all over
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Oiwan Lam globalvoices.org Oiwan lam is a media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. Her Chinese writings are in inmediahk.net Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a prominent international press freedom watchdog, released its latest report on China, “The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China,” on
One News recently ran a hit job on Tross Publishing, a publisher that we at The BFD are very familiar with as we have run advertorials for two of its books and have given away copies of them to six of our lucky members. The attack by One News was
Annebella Pollen University of Brighton Dr Annebella Pollen is an academic with interests in material and visual culture. Her research areas include mass photography and the popular image, and histories of art, craft, design and dress, especially marginal, alternative and non-canonical forms. I look at nude bodies all the time
Australians, at least pre-covid, generally liked to imagine that we lived in a pretty free country. Unlike those prudish Yanks, by the 70s, we even had full frontal nudity on telly. We certainly didn’t have that communist censorship stuff. Except that that was a total lie. From colonial times,
I mistakenly used to think that people generally respond positively when presented with facts that oppose their thinking. I was wrong. People do not change their thinking or behaviour if they derive benefits from misleading and inaccurate information. Mask wearing is an example of not following the science. At the
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com So, I had a little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin and several of her many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent Factory blog and
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Despite its self-serving revisionism, Hollywood took its sweet time deciding that “Nazis are bad, mmkay?” For the whole of the 1930s, Hollywood explicitly refrained from criticising or satirising the Nazi regime in any form. It wasn’t until 1940 that the Three Stooges released You Nazty Spy!, the first film
Trying to engage in rational debate online often seems to be an exercise doomed to futility. It’s not just the rabid tribalism that has infected public discourse, on all sides and at all levels, but the growing impossibility to even agree on basic facts. A great deal of the
Graham Adams fsu.nz Graham Adams has been involved in publishing in New Zealand for the past 40 years as a journalist, columnist, reviewer, magazine editor and subeditor. He has also worked as a book editor and screenwriter. He has a BA in psychology and French, and a MA in
