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
In The Lord of the Rings, the great J R R Tolkien described how the price of peace is eternal vigilance. “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again”. Indeed, despite the seeming happy-ever-after ending of The Lord of the Rings, an abandoned
I’m not a huge fan of Tasmanian Liberal senator Eric Abetz, but he is one of the few Australian politicians to clearly see and publicly speak out against the the Chinese communist regime. Having myself several times called Xi Xinping’s regime the 21st century’s Nazi Germany, it’
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The US presidential election couldn’t have come at a better time for the global mainstream media. With a series of horrific Islamic terror attacks suddenly reminding the world that the jihadis had never gone away, the mainstream media desperately needed something to lull the masses back to complacent sleep.
In that misty, distant time called “pre-COVID”, one of my favourite restaurants in Melbourne was a dumpling place in Chinatown. Mountains of cheap, delicious dumplings. The biggest cost was ignoring the Maoist propaganda on the walls, including the banner lauding the “great statesman, ideologist[… and] poet”. The only concession was
unwatch.org World Health Organization WHA 73rd Session, Committee B, 12 November 2020, Remarks by Ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations & International Organizations in Geneva Thank you, Moderator. Director General, Member States, Excellencies: What are we really talking about here? A decision that
Editor’s Note: This article was first published on Friday missing most of the text so it is being republished today. The Myanmar elections were held on 8th November and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD party is on track to win a resounding victory. Even though 25% of
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last year Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was the guest speaker at a private gathering in New York hosted by Bill and Melinda Gates. She told the audience that under her administration New Zealand had taken a lead and embedded the United Nations Agenda 2030 into
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com The cone of light originating from my cell phone is failing miserably in its attempts at lighting the track ahead of me. I make the mistake of turning it upside down to check if it has been partly covered by dirt and pay the ultimate penalty
November 10, 2020 Dear Ms. Clark, UN Watch respectfully requests that you recuse yourself as co-chair of the WHO inquiry into the origin of and global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Though WHO chief Dr. Tedros has lauded you as an independent leader who is singularly qualified to head this
Owen Cleverton As a younger man, and even now, I had an interest in the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. His monumental three-part book, “The Gulag Archipelago”, somehow seemed to encapsulate the human condition in all it’s evil and all its virtue. I’ve read it more than once. It
I’ve always loved American politics, even if purely for the entertainment factor. On November 3rd, President Trump won the legal vote by a huge margin, the Republicans picked up half a dozen House seats, held on to the Senate, picked up a state legislature and governorship, and saw greater
Putin Won’t Congratulate Winner of US Election Until Legal Challenges Settled Russian President Vladimir Putin is waiting for official results from the U.S. presidential election before congratulating the winner, a Kremlin spokesperson said. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that while the Kremlin hopes “to
John C. A. Manley globalresearch.ca John C. A. Manley has spent over a decade ghostwriting for medical doctors, as well as naturopaths, chiropractors and Ayurvedic physicians. He publishes the COVID-19(84) Red Pill Posts. He is also writing a novel, Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story. You
The Xi regime is bringing the iron fist down in no uncertain terms, both at home and abroad. At home, the Chinese Communist Party summarily squashed what would have been the world’s biggest stockmarket debut when it abruptly suspended the IPO of Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. Abroad,
