China has given Australian producers 10 days to respond before the country imposes crippling tariffs on the country’s barley producers. China has also separately suspended beef imports from four Australian abattoirs. China alleges that the Australian barley industry is propped up by illegal state supports, that an investigation by its Minister of Commerce found this to be true, and that it now needs to impose the tariffs to protect its […]
The Hungarian businessman also claimed that Mr. Trump is self-destructing in his role.
The German Newspaper Der Spiegel, renowned for its world-class fact-checking, has reported that Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, believes that Xi Jinping, leader of China’s Communist Party [CCP], personally asked the head of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to “hold back” information on human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 and to delay declaring that the […]
One advantage of President Trump’s tendency to say exactly what he’s thinking, regardless of the consequence, is that sometimes he hits on an important point. He did that yesterday: Trump on why businesses should reopen: "I'm viewing our great citizens of this country to a certain extent and to a large extent as warriors. They're […]
Gavi, the vaccine alliance, founded and funded largely by Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, is an appealing option for Governments looking to make donations, according to a paper published in Global Public Health in 2014, because “it can often produce quantified, politically-appealing, easy-to-explain results within an election cycle, which is appealing to public-sector donors.” […]
The creator of the New York Times controversial 1619 Project, which aims to “re-examine the legacy of slavery in the United States”, has won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary despite a critical backlash which saw numerous prominent historians, from both the right and left, coming forward to publicly say the project is misleading, ahistorical, deeply […]
America’s a great country, but sometimes you really do wonder what’s going on: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tells @MarthaRaddatz his statewide order mandating face masks be worn in stores went "too far." "It became clear to me that that was just a bridge too far. People were not going to accept the government telling them […]
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was giving an update to her country yesterday about their progress in conquering Covid 19 and getting back to some state of normalcy. The country has, so far, reported 1,487 cases, and just 20 deaths, and is considering re-opening for business as usual, and even relaxing restrictions on international […]
Discussing a possible Covid-19 vaccine, Gates said that it’s safety cannot be guaranteed.
The law will not expire until March 2021, with Health Minister Magnus Heunicke wholeheartedly welcoming the legislation.
Tesla founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk has described the continuation of the Covid-19 lockdown as “fascist” in an earnings conference call for the business. He added that many small businesses would not survive the restrictions. Mr Musk the lockdowns amounted to “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes”. “To say that they cannot leave their house […]
Easy to miss the distinction here, but it’s there, all right. He’s not praying “for the people of Europe”, or even, “to grant wisdom to European leaders”, or anything like that. He’s praying for “the unity of the European Union”. On the feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church and Patroness of […]