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
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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’
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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)
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,
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
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
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’
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
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
