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- I’ve been to China’s wet markets and eaten their wonderful delicacies. Demanding their closure over Covid-19 is cultural snobbery
Clamour to ban all of China’s wild animal markets is neo-imperialist thinking from self-interested campaigners and would only drive the trade underground. Regulate them better, sure, but drop the ‘we westerners know best’ BS. - Twitter & media know this isn’t about mail-in ballots or fraud, but about who gets to define truth; Trump does tooTwitter opened a new battlefront in the 2020 US election by ‘fact-checking’ posts by President Donald Trump to say he was wrong about voter fraud. That would normally be the end of the story – except nothing about this is normal.
- Circular firing squad scores a hit: Real reason Michael Moore’s film axed from YouTube is climate wrongthink, not copyrightMichael Moore’s popular yet controversial exposé of the “green” movement’s corruption has finally been knocked off YouTube by a tactic that’s as cowardly as it is underhanded. Nothing upsets a cult like a successful apostate.
- Horrifying high-tech hazmat suit promoted as the future of post-Covid clubbing – but hey, you can vape in it!The pandemic has forced everyone to socially distance – and one invention aims to let you keep doing it forever. The Micrashell is, in essence, a human hamster ball, but is billed as the future of gigs and parties.
- Twitter’s Covid-19 trolley problem: The censorship cost of its faulty conspiracy labelsTwitter has a trolley problem. Since its May 11 launch, its Covid-19 labeling system has misjudged content across its platform. How many wrongfully censored accounts are worth trading off for those rightly removed or labeled?
- UK ruled Hong Kong without a trace of democracy or human rights but is now ‘deeply concerned’ at China’s security proposalsThe British and American governments would not tolerate violent protests in their own countries but, when it comes to Hong Kong they beat the imperial drum for “democracy” and “human rights.”
- Take that, Trump! Venezuela’s oil shipments from Iran show how alliances can help defy US sanctionsJoint endeavor by two countries vilified by the US illustrates how its claims of dominance can be challenged. But more nations need to play a part in future.
- Bishops bashing Cummings show Church of England is more concerned with pandering to liberals than preaching to its flockThirteen bishops showed their less-than-forgiving side when they damned Boris Johnson’s right-hand man for breaking lockdown. Why do these left-leaning ‘Guardian Angels’ believe people care what they think?
- Hypocritical Irish PM tells his people not to picnic during lockdown, then sunbathes bare-chested while picnickingIn his latest PR blunder, and ignoring his own government’s Covid-19 advice, Leo Varadkar was snapped enjoying a picnic in a park. The tasteless photos of him laughing and joking have left a bad taste in the mouths of the public.
- Australia is US’ most loyal military ally, but when it trades with China, Trump BULLIES it like anyone elseDespite years of supporting the US in major war efforts, Australia is being treated with contempt by the Americans, who want to dictate who the country does business with.
- I’ve been to China’s wet markets and eaten their wonderful delicacies. Demanding their closure over Covid-19 is cultural snobberyClamour to ban all of China’s wild animal markets is neo-imperialist thinking from self-interested campaigners and would only drive the trade underground. Regulate them better, sure, but drop the ‘we westerners know best’ BS.
- Twitter & media know this isn’t about mail-in ballots or fraud, but about who gets to define truth; Trump does tooTwitter opened a new battlefront in the 2020 US election by ‘fact-checking’ posts by President Donald Trump to say he was wrong about voter fraud. That would normally be the end of the story – except nothing about this is normal.
- Circular firing squad scores a hit: Real reason Michael Moore’s film axed from YouTube is climate wrongthink, not copyrightMichael Moore’s popular yet controversial exposé of the “green” movement’s corruption has finally been knocked off YouTube by a tactic that’s as cowardly as it is underhanded. Nothing upsets a cult like a successful apostate.
- Horrifying high-tech hazmat suit promoted as the future of post-Covid clubbing – but hey, you can vape in it!The pandemic has forced everyone to socially distance – and one invention aims to let you keep doing it forever. The Micrashell is, in essence, a human hamster ball, but is billed as the future of gigs and parties.
- Twitter’s Covid-19 trolley problem: The censorship cost of its faulty conspiracy labelsTwitter has a trolley problem. Since its May 11 launch, its Covid-19 labeling system has misjudged content across its platform. How many wrongfully censored accounts are worth trading off for those rightly removed or labeled?
- UK ruled Hong Kong without a trace of democracy or human rights but is now ‘deeply concerned’ at China’s security proposalsThe British and American governments would not tolerate violent protests in their own countries but, when it comes to Hong Kong they beat the imperial drum for “democracy” and “human rights.”
- Take that, Trump! Venezuela’s oil shipments from Iran show how alliances can help defy US sanctionsJoint endeavor by two countries vilified by the US illustrates how its claims of dominance can be challenged. But more nations need to play a part in future.
- Bishops bashing Cummings show Church of England is more concerned with pandering to liberals than preaching to its flockThirteen bishops showed their less-than-forgiving side when they damned Boris Johnson’s right-hand man for breaking lockdown. Why do these left-leaning ‘Guardian Angels’ believe people care what they think?
- Hypocritical Irish PM tells his people not to picnic during lockdown, then sunbathes bare-chested while picnickingIn his latest PR blunder, and ignoring his own government’s Covid-19 advice, Leo Varadkar was snapped enjoying a picnic in a park. The tasteless photos of him laughing and joking have left a bad taste in the mouths of the public.
- Australia is US’ most loyal military ally, but when it trades with China, Trump BULLIES it like anyone elseDespite years of supporting the US in major war efforts, Australia is being treated with contempt by the Americans, who want to dictate who the country does business with.
- US veterans survive foreign battlefields only to die back at home from invisible enemies like Covid-19 & suicideThis Memorial Day, America is confronted with the task of honoring members of its armed forces who died while serving a globe-spanning killing machine, while those veterans who made it home are dying from a host of afflictions.
- Why wait? The 2020 Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled immediately. It has no place in a post-pandemic worldThe globe’s greatest sporting event has become a bloated colossus of wasted money. Instead of trying to hold a Covid-compromised games next year, the IOC should pull the plug and focus on changing it for the better in future.
- Did you know the bogus idea of 'social distancing' was invented by a 14-year-old girl during the Bush administration in 2006?The lockdown measures implemented across the US – and failing to save us from either Covid-19 or economic ruin – have roots in a 2006 schoolgirl’s science project. They became law despite several academics’ resistance.
- Media could ask Cummings about needless deaths & crashing economy. But their ‘gotcha!’ moment is a stupid car tripTop Boris Johnson adviser Dominic Cummings’ apparent violation of lockdown rules has the UK media obsessed. But the way they have rushed for a piece of him is a showcase of a pack mentality with misplaced priorities.
- Big Brother benefits: Covid accelerates transition to cashless society – but does it mean more safety or less freedom for us?Never let a good crisis go to waste, the old saying goes, and we can see that clearly with ‘Covid-19 health concerns’ being used as an excuse to stop people exercising their right to pay in cash.
- Nord Stream 2: Geopolitics, economics or emotions?Emotions are running high about the prospect of a new pipeline across the Baltic Sea bringing gas from Russia to Europe. But with the industry turned upside down by Covid-19, it’s the best solution.
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