In case you don’t know, Pete Evans is an Australian celebrity chef and judge. He also happens to be one of the latest to be cancelled because of a remark or tweet. The Warehouse will stop selling the work of controversial Australian chef Pete Evans but his books and
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com I chanced upon this photo in my hometown’s FB Page and was struck by the metaphor for our time that it represents. Presently, Cancel Culture is in full swing and is replacing accepted societal norms with the Globalist’s new or required norm. In the
William Huang William Huang is a product of the one-child policy as he is the only son in the family. Born and raised in China, it is only when he went overseas to study that he had an epiphany, realizing just how much damage this policy has done to the
Modern-day book burners have been busy this month and have successfully de-platformed two authors for the crime of posting memes or opinions on social media that the modern-day book burners don’t like. Since Christmas is around the corner and we are all looking for some great holiday reading I
Nicholas Coppel lens.monash.edu Since the advent of web-based social media platforms, the creation and dissemination of information is no longer in the hands of a few. Citizens can now simultaneously be creators, consumers and spreaders of content. The analytics and algorithms of social media mean citizens have a
If universities are breeding the leaders of the future, then we’re facing a horrifying and intellectually impoverished, darkened future. The Enlightenment is over, folks: the Inquisitors have won. In the 1960s, university students were the spear-carriers of the Free Speech Movement. Today, their children and grandchildren are tearing it
The co-ordinated worldwide march on freedom of expression took another nasty turn yesterday, yet again (predictably) to the left, with the eviction of The Conservative Treehouse (TCH) — a pro-Republican site with a strong Christian faith bent — from WordPress, not for any rule violation, not for any inflammatory statements, not because
The NZ Herald, like legacy media everywhere, is trying to get creative in order to increase their revenue. I received the following email from them yesterday. Hi Juana Commenting is back on nzherald.co.nz and our Apple and Android apps! As a Registered user, you’re able to join
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Michael Rectenwald mises.org/wire/google-election Michael Rectenwald was a Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University (retired). [This is the transcript of the eponymous talk presented at the Mises Institute’s Ron Paul Symposium on November 7, 2020, in Angleton, Texas.] “Don’t be evil” may no longer
Graham Hill Joe Biden has called for “healing and unity” while Democrats, AOC, the MSM and its operatives call for blacklists and purges to end careers, ostracise, exclude and persecute all those who supported President Trump and work for the federal government. Unity, it seems, means compliance with critical theory,
Eliora Ms Bao Choy, a freelance journalist in Hong Kong, was arrested at her home on Tuesday 3 November 2020 for allegedly making a false declaration to access vehicle ownership records. She was trying to trace those present at the scene of the Yeun Long attacks for a documentary programme
covidplanb.co.nz Sunetra Gupta, a founding signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, wrote for the Daily Mail. Here is an edited set of excerpts. I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not
As I write this, polls are yet to close on the US election, but an interesting tidbit to emerge from, of all places, the New York Times, is that voters for Joe Biden are most likely to be women named “Karen”. You can’t make this up. But this raises
