Jacinda Ardern might witter that “family is incredibly important” in global politics, but increasingly, she is developing a roving eye. As Ardern’s eyes and affections drift north across the Pacific, she is more often than not siding with China against her Australasian family. Once again, she is taking China’
Johannes Petry University of Warwick Johannes Petry is a political economist researching the changing dynamics of financial globalisation and its impact on the global norms, institutions and governance that underpin the global economy. China introduced new rules on November 1 that restrict the extent to which internet companies can collect
It’s hard to know just where to start the snark. Fran O’Sullivan’s gushing puff-piece about Jacinda Ardern meeting Angela Merkel is what the military folks call “a target-rich environment”. It’s also a rich study in my-side blindness. Consider the opening sentence: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will
Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. Glasgow, Scotland U.K.
It’s sporadically fashionable in some leftist circles to accuse the Allies of complicity in the Holocaust, because, the argument runs, they knew about it and did nothing. This is an obviously ludicrous argument — have they never heard of the Second World War? — which ignores, primarily, the simple fact that
Perry Trotter The Advocate IINZ At the time of writing my June editorial, the 2021 Israel-Gaza conflict had recently concluded amidst a worldwide surge in antisemitism described by a number of commentators as “unprecedented”. Of course, for many, the conflict of May 2021 is now very much a thing of
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The delegates have barely alighted from their private jets and checked into their luxury suites and already Glasgow is shaping up to be the funniest climate flop since Copenhagen. As you might remember, the Copenhagen climate summit was torpedoed by the leaking of the Climategate emails. Suddenly, the world got
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Winter is coming … and you know what that means. That’s right, it’s nearly time once again for the global-capitalist ruling classes to whip the New Normal masses into a state of mindless mass hysteria over an imaginary apocalyptic virus. the same imaginary apocalyptic virus
Nan Jacques Zilberdik palwatch.org According to “direct orders and instructions” from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the PA has established over 100 Palestinian embassies around the world. [Official PA TV News, Oct. 23, 2021] One such embassy is located in Tunisia. When staff and visitors arrive they are met with
rt.com The COP26 UN Climate Change Conference has been accused of holding world leaders to different Covid-19 standards than the general public after its rules revealed vaccine passports are only mandatory for normal ticket holders. Social media users pointed out on Saturday – just one day before the conference in
Thornton Blackmore Protests are erupting worldwide in the wake of mandatory vaccination orders being handed down by our would-be dictators. Scenes of Melburnian tradesmen holding their ground against the riot squad at the Shrine of Remembrance while singing the Australian National Anthem, and defecting policemen in Europe throwing aside their
24th October 2021 Myanmar’s military regime may soon find it more difficult to access its financial assets in Singapore, following discussions between authorities there and US officials on how to partner effectively to wield the city state’s financial leverage over the junta. Derek Chollet, counsellor of the US
John McCormick Chairman Hawkes Bay Friends of Israel Kiwi girl Killed in Israel. In what I believe to be our first victim of terrorism 19-year-old Miss Judith Sinton of Auckland was shot dead on Kibbutz Shamir in northern Israel on June 13 1974. She was a tourist working on the
