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21WIRE | Harsh COVID responses can end up shortening lives - but we may not know for several years.

By Eric Worrall | Watts Up With That? | August 3, 2021 Imagine if people were crazy enough to install these difficult to extinguish battery incendiary devices in their homes or automobiles, or near populated areas. Imagine what such foolishness could do to insurance premiums, once companies catch on to the risk of batteries acting […]

The company has been looking forward to this for some time.  For an outfit found wanting in dealing with inhabitants of a land whose culture it eviscerated in a matter of hours in May last year, Rio Tinto could think grandly about another future. The Anglo-Australian mining giant could add its name to a sounder, […]
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By Michael Curzon  • The Daily Sceptic • August 2, 2021 Following reports of the Australian army being deployed to ensure citizens are abiding by strict lockdown rules, an elderly Sydney resident has written to the Australian about being arrested for exercising near her home. Police officers interpreted this as an offence because the resident, a widow, was wearing a sign […]

Nancy Pelosi laid on harsh COVID-19 masking rules for the Lower House of Congress on Thursday, triggering quite a response from her chamber’s members, most particularly Republicans, but even some Democrats have had enough of this. That it is mostly Republicans is a problem, because this so far smells of “political stunt.” However, there may […]

In this segment of 'The Watchdog' video podcast, Lowkey is joined by comedian Aamer Rahman to explain how Australia maintains close political ties to the United Kingdom, with British Home Secretary Pritti Patel seeing the country’s offshore migrant detention centers, referred to by some as “concentration camps” as a model for the U.K. to follow.

Interrogate the devil; he will tell you that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws and a tail. — Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary This is what real education looks like — Evo Organizes Anti-Imperialist Day School For Youth Iris Varela spoke about the history of the Bolivarian Revolution and explained in detail how the economic blockade […]
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This is what REALLY happened at the Rally For Freedom in Melbourne Forget the fake news; WATCH & SHARE what really happened On Saturday, Melbourne saw its largest lockdown protest yet. Did it really take a fifth lockdown to finally wake people up? Before the protest kicked off, Victoria Police assembled at Flinders Street Station, […]

It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone.  Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail tucked between their legs, Australia is now wondering if it should return – in some form.  The Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs has been sending out a few signals, none of them definitive.  “We will […]
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By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim the Net | July 24, 2021 In Australia, announcements have been made just this week that credit card data trails and CCTV surveillance footage will now be used for contact tracing. South Australia State’s capital Adelaide will go into a seven-day lockdown and in announcing this, officials there said that in order to more […]