25th July 2021 Myanmar’s economy is set to shrink by 18 percent this fiscal year amid the ongoing political upheaval caused by the military coup and a rapid surge in the third wave of COVID-19 in the country, the World Bank said in its latest report. The World
I have a cunning plan. A plan so cunning…well you know how it goes with tails and weasels and so on. I am as guilty as many in being downbeat as to where we find ourselves at present; only yesterday I commented on this forum how depressing I found
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David Seymour ACT Leader MIQ is the bottleneck starving the New Zealand economy of the skilled people businesses need to grow and compete. ACT has a plan to expand MIQ places and make it safer than what the Government is doing now. Under ACT’s plan, owners of currently mothballed
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. We just got some bad, if not very surprising, news. Newly released Centers for Disease Control data show that life expectancy fell significantly in 2020. And, no, not just because
25th July 2021 The UN special rapporteur on Myanmar gave an interview to Radio Free Asia, which highlights the difficulties in trying to give aid and find a diplomatic solution. RFA: What is your opinion of the situation in Myanmar right now? Andrews: There’s very, very deep concern within
Protests across Italy against COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates ROME (AFP) – Thousands of people protested in cities across Italy on Saturday (July 24) against the government’s introduction of restrictions on unvaccinated people as Rome tries to slow an upturn in Covid-19 infections. “Freedom!” and “Down with the dictatorship!” chanted
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org So, it looks like GloboCap isn’t going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a
There is a lamentable tendency, these days, to label everything that questions the Establishment narrative a “conspiracy theory”. Like “denier”, and its antecedents, “counter-revolutionary” and “rightist subversive”, it’s a particularly nasty form of the ad hominem fallacy. A “conspiracy theorist” is not just wrong (allegedly): they’re sinister;
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Every totalitarian system in history has used the power of visual propaganda to generate a new “reality,” one that reifies its official ideology, remaking the world in its own paranoid image. New Normal totalitarianism is no exception. For example, take a look at this panel copied
It is beyond funny watching the woke spitting the dummy and causing the cancellation of a Maori artist’s work after a Labour Maori MP howled in outrage over the alleged racism of the art: A health pamphlet that put a moko on a cartoon Covid-19 virus – shown getting
22nd July 2021 Following on from previous pieces on Covid in Myanmar, we see how the people of Myanmar have to be creative in transporting and disposing of bodies. It really is getting beyond surreal in Myanmar. All this is happening in the monsoon, which makes everything difficult and uncomfortable.
