Manipulating America: The Chinese Communist Playbook
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World Politics
Instead of Toppling a Statue, How about We Topple a Tyrant?
Patriotrealm patriotrealm.com Tearing down the monuments built on the slave’s backs – you’d better get a bigger truck. If we were to raze everything to the ground that rose up from the yoke of slavery, we would have little left standing, save some cheap housing and a few
China’s Lapdog Does Its Master’s Bidding
If there’s any doubt that we live in a Clown World run by the very worst people imaginable, consider the following: A global Human Rights Council run by nations like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China and Egypt. China, a regime notorious for using dissidents as organ farms, and currently pursuing
The Lynching of History
Welcome to the Lynching of History, I hope you’re enjoying the spurious spectacle. In the current episode, we’ve seen the super-sanctimonious eye of contemporary woke-think focused on some of the peculiarities particular to several past-performers of assumed cultural iconology. True it is that some were never deserving; our
The Winter of Our Discontent
We watched in disbelief as mobs looted and vandalised in America, attacking and beating people, wrecking their businesses and murdering those that tried to stop them. The catch cry is “Justice for George”, but the police officers who were involved in George Floyd’s murder have already been brought to
Where Is the Solidarity with Australia?
Xbolt So China has mounted a cyber attack on our closest ally and brothers in arms, the Australians. Where is the ANZAC spirit? Where are New Zealand cries of “we stand with our best friends and allies”? Is it because there is so much Chinese money invested in our politicians
Serving It up to Beijing’s Bullies
While the Labor opposition in Australia openly crawl to the Chinese Communist Party, the Coalition government’s attitude is somewhat ambivalent. On the one hand, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg talk a good game about curtailing Chinese interests buying up Australia’s strategic assets – while the Foreign
A Study of Invertebrates
The dictionary definition of “invertebrate” is “an animal lacking a backbone, including arthropods, molluscs, annelids, etc”. A few new species have just revealed themselves, and recent observations show the following characteristics. Most are of European origin. None are aggressive, even mildly assertive, or retaliatory. All appear to have little ability
Will the Woke Hand Back Their Degrees and Scholarships?
The Telegraph reports that Oxford’s Oriel College will take down the statue of Cecil Rhodes because of his colonial past: Oxford’s Oriel College on Wednesday night recommended the removal of a controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes following an outcry over his links with Britain’s colonial past. Amid
Who’s More Radical: The Left or the Right?
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Macron Grows Les Boules
If you were to ponder which world leader would be the most likely to take a strong stance against the statue-smashing, book-burning, cancelling, New Cultural Revolution, no doubt Emmanuel Macron would be somewhere at the back of the list with Jacinda Ardern. But, no! Le Petit Souffle has risen to
Face of the Day
I think we should start a “Socialists who are shit” series. Today’s face of the day Che Guevara is the hero of many a Leftie who proudly wears this racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, terrorist scumbag’s face on their T-shirts. In 1950s Cuba, inspired by Marxist communism, Argentinian-born Ernesto ‘Che’
Postcard from Canada: 16 June
Geoffrey Corfield is a card-carrying member of both The Conservative Party of Canada (federal) and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (provincial). Canada is just over 37 times bigger than New Zealand. It is divided into 10 provincial and three territorial jurisdictions, three of which are smaller than New Zealand.
Playing Hardball with China Works
Andreas Fulda University of Nottingham Global attitudes towards the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are hardening. In 2019, the European Union declared the PRC a “systemic rival” amid rising trade tensions. In May 2020, the White House published a paper that described the US’s competitive approach to the
Allowing the Call to Prayer in Canada Spurred Complaints — but Not about Noise
David Said University of Guelph Every year, Muslims around the world celebrate the month of Ramadan with a combination of fasting, prayer and spiritual reflection. This year, however, due to the coronavirus outbreak and worldwide lockdowns, Muslims, like many other religious groups, had to rethink their customs by adhering to
On Statues
Alwyn Poole From being so long in education I tend to think about what we are saying to our young when adults make decisions and how much we encourage them to think deeply about issues. Apart from the stupidity of our current economics, I heard Grant Robertson regarding Olympic protests