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Are They Really Using COVID to Control Population?

Are They Really Using COVID to Control Population?

The idea that the Covid pandemic is all part of some nefarious globalist population reduction plot enjoys some currency on the wackier fringes of conspiracy-dom. Yet it is, on the face of it, a pretty far-fetched idea. Certainly it’s an extraordinary claim. Here’s the thing: extraordinary claims require

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How Could They Have Done This to the Children?

Vinay Prasad   brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author

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Why Don’t We Introduce Obesity Passports?

Why Don’t We Introduce Obesity Passports?

Noah Carl rt.com Noah Carl, an independent researcher based in the UK. Information Opinion The latest argument for vaccine passports is that we have to increase vaccine uptake to reduce pressure on the health service. By this logic, we should also consider restrictions for those who are overweight. The

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Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty is former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health. Japan’s ministry of health is taking a sensible, ethical approach to Covid vaccines. They recently labeled the vaccines with a warning about myocarditis and other

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Australia, South Korea Strengthen Ties

Australia, South Korea Strengthen Ties

Ever since Gough Whitlam, Australian foreign policy mavens have wittered about “finding our place in Asia”. For too long, though, that seems to have too often consisted of sucking up to dictators. Whitlam set the tone with his visit — as Opposition Leader — to a China still under the iron rule

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Why Japan Didn’t Go Completely Batshit Crazy

Why Japan Didn’t Go Completely Batshit Crazy

Eye Patch Jack pacificnarrations.substack.com Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Yes, how do you like this? This is my new Maori greeting that perhaps I shall use more, as I have recently found out that I am, by the New Zealand government’s definition, a member of

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Red Queen Sees Red at Christmas

Red Queen Sees Red at Christmas

The Red Queen is seeing Red at Christmas Time, but it’s not Red Santa. He won’t be able to get in from the North Pole till well after December 25th when the whole event is over. A bit like the one million Kiwis overseas who can’t get

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Shadow Diplomacy

Shadow Diplomacy

Dark Jester Shadow diplomacy is a new idea that has entered the public sphere. This is an extension of the concept of shadow government which I discussed in a previous article about ‘parallel polis’. The idea of a shadow government is one that is a fixture of European politics. It

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China: Why We (Probably) Won’t Go to War

China: Why We (Probably) Won’t Go to War

Is China really destined to be the superpower of the 21st century? Is war with China inevitable? These are two interrelated questions, which, in my humble, non-“expert” opinion, can both be answered, “no”. With important qualifications, of course. The qualified answer to the first question is, “almost certainly not”

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China Strategy Dominates New Zealand’s Foreign Policy Year

Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic.

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China: Why We Might Go to War

China: Why We Might Go to War

In my previous post, I argued that war with China was far from inevitable, especially if we could navigate the next few years in peace. Others are not so optimistic. Certainly, there are plenty of people in power warning of the possibility of war with China. But are they, like

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