The Post-Partisan Emporium

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi PART ONE: The fantasy of Zero Covid and the rise of the first democratic police state. Alex Berenson Americans have the wrong idea about Australia. Thanks to some brilliant tourism branding and Crocodile Dundee, we think of it as rough-n-ready frontier country, Montana with bigger beer cans.  The dingo ate my baby! In reality it’s Canada with a mean streak. The Karens are in charge and they are mad. (This is Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria. Imagine the owner of the hippest coffee shop in town crossbred with a minor Central American despot - a Somoza, maybe - and you get the idea.) Anyhow, Covid was perfect for Australia, which has a long and ugly history of trying to protect its borders at all costs. For most of its national existence it viewed itself pretty much explicitly as a white outpost against the Asian hordes. Not all that much has changed. A few years ago the Australian government reopened offshore detention camps to discourage asylum seek...

Why are the FDA and CDC advisory panel members so afraid to debate COVID Vaccine Safety? SteveKirsch Recently, both the FDA and CDC advisory panels have voted to approve COVID vaccine booster shots for certain groups of people. I believe that that vote was a mistake. They should have voted to stop the vaccines entirely and replace it with early treatment protocols since such protocols are safer and more effective than the vaccines. Instead, they completely avoided talking about the issue in their meetings and they refused all reasonable attempts to be challenged on what the science actually shows. How we got here Let’s recap a quick history of how I came to this conclusion. In early May, my friends reported death and disability after being vaccinated. I started looking at the data and the more I looked, the more troubled I became. I arranged to tell the world what I learned on  Bret Weinstein’s Darkhorse Podcast  with my friend Robert Malone. That video went viral with almost ...

Bovine Coronavirus and Us More on coronavirus vaccines in animals. eugyppius There is  good reason to think  that HCoV OC43, a common betacoronavirus responsible for minor cold-like symptoms in humans, started out in cows. It is closely related to bovine coronavirus (BCoV), which has long caused serious respiratory illness and diarrhoea in cattle. In all likelihood, the bovine virus jumped to humans around 1889, and was the pathogen behind the so-called Asiatic or Russian Flu. Intriguingly, this is the only other novel coronavirus pandemic we know about. It unfolded across the world in multiple seasonal waves, lasting in some places through 1895. Today, of course, OC43 is a minor virus that nobody cares about. A big part of the reason it doesn’t matter, is that everybody develops multiple infections in childhood, when (as with SARS-2) the symptoms are minor. As adults they therefore enjoy substantial protection when they are occasionally reinfected. Keep this in mind every tim...

Despite Horrifying State Violence, Brave Australians Continue to Resist COVID Police State Matt Agorist   Unless you’ve been under a rock, or you only get your information from mainstream media — who is all but completely ignoring it — you’ve likely seen the  utterly disturbing police state measures  being rolled out in Australia in the ostensible reaction to the pandemic. Though the pandemic has largely spared the country when comparing them to other places, the tyranny being rolled out is unprecedented. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Australian government has been increasingly restricting freedom until people were essentially locked in their homes and told not to talk to one another. Military  helicopters patrolled  neighborhoods, ordering those who simply wanted to get a breath of fresh air, to get back inside. Jackboots on horses patrolled the streets as folks who attempted to organize protests were visited by police and  snatched up in the ni...

Open Borders and Affluent Americans ROBERT WEISSBERG   Who benefits from the massive surge of migrants crossing our southern boarder? Obviously, more is involved than just compassion for millions of poor Guatemalans and their children. And while adding future Democratic voters is clearly the long-term aim of those tolerating the invasion, there is one group of immediate beneficiaries whose needs have garnered scant attention: affluent Americans whose comfort depends on armies low-wage, happy-to-please foreign-born workers. The awkward truth is that millions of upscale Americans risk transforming the US into a banana republic in pursuit of creature comforts. Like those wretched masses wading across the Rio Grande, they, too, want a better life. Beyond a certain income level, the appetite for material objects declines. Even the mega-rich can consume only so many giant TV’s, fancy cars, and other pricy goodies. With physical needs largely satisfied, services become central—waiters and...