The BFD Video: Beijing Wants to ‘Split Australia’
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World Politics
Comparisons with Sweden
Using computer models, doomsayers predicted disaster for Sweden if it didn’t lockdown. Swedish journalist Johan Norberg reports what has actually happened. At last we’re getting a debate about Covid-19 modelling. When people finally got to look under the hood of the famous Imperial College study, they found twisted
Lockdowns Are Hurting the World’s Poorest Workers
As Eric D. July observed at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns, “folks with guaranteed jobs are telling people that can’t work they have to be imprisoned in their houses for an indefinite amount of time”. Not one of the people mandating lockdowns and at the stroke of a
Union Backs Morrison over China
Australia’s biggest union has broken ranks with the Labor Party and sided with the Morrison government over China. The Australian Worker’s Union has thrown its support behind Morrison’s push for an international investigation into the origins of the Xi Plague. Countering criticism of the government from Anthony
Anonymous, Arse-Kissing Bureacrats Praise China’s Pillage
Talk of a “deep state” might seem all conspiratorial and tinfoil-hatty, but it’s harder and harder to deny that there is a massive, unelected technocracy, even in Australia. Regardless of changing governments, this technocracy increasingly seems to see itself as the real ruling party. Rather than answering to the
Never Kowtow to China, Warns Former Minister
I wasn’t, it’s fair to say, particularly enamoured of Stephen Conroy’s tenure as Communications Minister for the Rudd and Gillard governments. In that role, Conroy leaned heavily towards censorship, especially of the internet. Yet, Conroy was also one of the few Labor MPs to openly push back
The BFD Video: Italian Leader Screams “Stop Lying I Have the True Numbers”
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My Upsides Have All Come to Pass
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com The old adage that what doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger may never be truer in our time than in the case of the Corona Virus that is currently throwing almost everyone into hysteria and panic. First, even if “Islamo-Marxist” Angela Merkel’s
A Tale of Two Women
One of these women is the darling of the world media and has delivered a “masterclass” in the fight against COVID-19, Jacinda Ardern. The other you have probably never heard of, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. It appears that Tsai Ing-wen has smashed the COVID-19 virus by every measurement one
COVID Confusion
Viv Forbes BScApp, FAusImm, FSIA Viv Forbes has studied financial analysis, business economics and politics, and he is one of the oldies more vulnerable to the Wuhan virus. We are drowning in a sea of suspect statistics, many being used selectively by power-hungry politicians. Especially COVID statistics. Suppose an obese
Are We Following a Script?
Back in 2010 the Rockefeller Foundation produced a paper entitled Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development which postulated four scenarios for what the future might look like. In the introduction, answering the question of “Why scenarios?” the report includes this: Scenario planning is a methodology designed to
China Adds Insult to Pandemic Injury
As we’ve reported at The BFD, even while China was still lying to the world about the virus outbreak in Wuhan – thus, inadvertently or not, allowing the virus to spread unchecked around the globe – Chinese companies were quietly pillaging soon-to-be-desperately-needed medical supplies. Indeed, leaked intelligence suggests that Beijing’s
COVID-19: The Moloch Option
It was an apparently widespread practice in the ancient Mediterranean basin to sacrifice children in order to placate the wrath of the gods. In Carthage, such sacrifices were made to Cronus (echoed in the Greek myth of Saturn devouring his sons). More famously, the Canaanites sacrificed their children to Moloch.
Lies…Damned Lies…and…COVID-19 Statistics
Since the world wide COVID-19 farce started, we’ve been subjected to a variety of weird and wonderful opinions from many who, if we are to be realistic and pragmatic, really should know better. We all know about the ‘Original Sin’ perpetrated on the entire world by the Chinese government
Lockdown Will Cause Thousands of Additional Deaths in NZ
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com When the government compelled New Zealand into lockdown on March 24th most New Zealanders, desperate for any kind of decisive action, were relieved. Whether you believe the government’s decision to lock down the country was justified (I argue here and here it was not)
Panda Hugging Useful Idiots Chasing China’s Dollar
Clive Hamilton has written that the Silent Invasion of Australia is being enabled by the foolish, mendacious and greedy at all levels, but most especially in politics, academia and business. “Apologists for China in Australia know that the Chinese state is repressive…but they manage to set it all aside,