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COVID Confusion

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

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Are We Following a Script?

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

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China Adds Insult to Pandemic Injury

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

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COVID-19: The Moloch Option

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.

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Lies…Damned Lies…and…COVID-19 Statistics

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

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Lockdown Will Cause Thousands of Additional Deaths in NZ

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)

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Panda Hugging Useful Idiots Chasing China’s Dollar

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,

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Naval Exercises Ramp up the Pressure on Beijing

Naval Exercises Ramp up the Pressure on Beijing

China is clearly feeling the heat on all fronts as it steps up its propaganda war in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic. Many have wondered if the Chinese virus pandemic will be China’s “Chernobyl” moment: a disaster so monstrous and so damaging to the rest of the

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Xi Jinping

Six Questions for Xi Jinping

Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com Nearly three weeks ago, historian Niall Ferguson posted six questions that Chinese political leader Xi Jinping needs to answer about this coronavirus — not in any expectation of them being answered, but instead to highlight how far China still seems to be from enjoying the free

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The Economics of Freedom

The Economics of Freedom

I have written in The BFD recently about the decline of western Anglosphere nations through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. And that how, through a collapse in confidence, and also in morality, we have meekly accepted the suspension in civil liberties deemed by governments to be ‘necessary’ under

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China Bullying 2: The Targeting of Mack Horton

China Bullying 2: The Targeting of Mack Horton

As a billion Chinese already know, China’s totalitarian panopticon state misses nothing. As millions of Chinese dissidents also know, the communists resolutely seek out and punish anything and everything the Party disapproves of. Countless Chinese students have learned the hard way that the Party’s tentacles reach all the

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China Bullying 1: Trying to Strong-Arm Australia

China Bullying 1: Trying to Strong-Arm Australia

China is behaving with imperial arrogance as governments around the world echo the fury of ordinary citizens at Beijing for its lies and cover-ups which (perhaps intentionally) unleashed the Wuhan pandemic on the world. Having grown used to bullying and punishing its own people the instant they step out of

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Criticism of the Lockdown

Criticism of the Lockdown

Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com Since I wrote Corona fevers and the madness of models, criticising the lockdown in New Zealand, there have been many comments and some objections to the article. Some of these have been discussed in other forums but here I will try to respond to a

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Brace for the New World Order

Brace for the New World Order

When Great Britain emerged blinking from the rubble of the Second World War it was a nation hugely in debt and on the brink of a silent social revolution. The country’s war debt to the United States was in the order of $3.7 billion, and despite Harold Macmillan’

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It Came from a Lab

It Came from a Lab

Back in January, I covered a ZeroHedge article that claimed COVID-19 came from a Chinese government lab. Since then we’ve had media mostly claim it’s all a baseless conspiracy theory. But now none other than the Trump-hatin’ WaPo has taken up the mantle. Two years before the novel

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