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Japan and Australia Formalise an Historic Alliance

Japan and Australia Formalise an Historic Alliance

One of the most remarkable turnarounds in modern history is that of bitterest enemies becoming fast allies within less than a century. The depth of the enmity between Australia and Japan in WWII cannot be overstated. The treatment of Allied POWs in Japanese camps is legendary for its brutality. For

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What’s China Lying About Now?

What’s China Lying About Now?

If there’s one thing we know for certain about the Wuhan plague, it’s that China has lied and continues to lie through its teeth. Did the virus arise as a random zoonosis in a filthy live animal market, did it escape from a lab or was it deliberately

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Stop Playing Politics or Face a Ban, Nintendo Warns Animal Crossing Gamers

Stop Playing Politics or Face a Ban, Nintendo Warns Animal Crossing Gamers

Hong Kong Free Press globalvoices.org “What Animal Crossing represented was not just entertainment […]” The following post was written by Candice Chau and originally published on Hong Kong Free Press on November 21, 2020. This edited version is republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Japanese video game

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Eugenics Policies Are Part of China’s Five-Year Plan, Says Expert

Eugenics Policies Are Part of China’s Five-Year Plan, Says Expert

Michael Cook MercatorNet Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet An expert on women’s issues has rung alarm bells about the potential for eugenics in China’s latest “five-year plan”. Columbia professor Leta Hong Fincher told a panel of China watchers at a virtual conference by the Center

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Pacific Alliance Grows – Where’s NZ?
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Pacific Alliance Grows – Where’s NZ?

In the Cold War, the NATO alliance formed the bulwark of the free world against deadly communist expansion. The Iron Curtain across eastern Europe was often an uncomfortable flashpoint and the Berlin Wall was an open scar, but the alternative, an aggressive, brutally expansionist Soviet Union given free reign in

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Technology and the Truth

Technology and the Truth

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

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The Global Elite Will Never Allow Us to Be Free Again

The Global Elite Will Never Allow Us to Be Free Again

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,

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Australian Politicians Call Xi’s China for What It Is

Australian Politicians Call Xi’s China for What It Is

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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Austria Set to Outlaw the “Breeding Ground” of Terror

Austria Set to Outlaw the “Breeding Ground” of Terror

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.

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NZ Professor Warns of Neo-Maoist Threat
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NZ Professor Warns of Neo-Maoist Threat

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

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Statement by Israel to 73rd World Health Assembly

Statement by Israel to 73rd World Health Assembly

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

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