ASIA PACIFIC TODAY

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. Tourism: Far North Queensland & Kevin Byrne, Kirk Clyatt & Las Vegas. Biden's Tax & Blake Christian

Today we discuss two of the great tourist destinations, Las Vegas and Far North Queensland. Blake Christian says for Americans, there may be a little less money to spend because of of Biden's tax hikes.

How are tourist destinations that are highly dependent on international visitors travelling, more than 12 months after the Pandemic arrived?

The head of Enterprise North, Kevin Byrne believes up to a quarter of Far North tourism businesses will be shut down within 12 months despite the federal government’s rescue package and hopeful looming return of international flights.

Kevin Byrne is Executive Director of Enterprise North, a North Queensland organisation that fosters economic growth in this region of Australia. Kevin Byrne has enjoyed a successful forty-year career across government, military and business. 

He was Mayor of Cairns for eleven years during which time the city positioned itself as the international gateway to Northern Australia. Kevin is a passionate advocate for Northern Australia talks to us about the impact of intermittent border closures. 

Kirk Clyatt has witnessed Las Vegas change from a glittering metropolis to a shadow of itself during the wave of covid restrictions. 

Due to the impact of the pandemic, the number of visitors to Las Vegas dropped sharply in 2020 over the previous year. In 2020, Las Vegas recorded roughly 19 million visitors, whereas it attracted over 42 million people in 2019.

Joe Biden has been out and about selling the massive $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan. But what about the inevitable tax hikes and how will it affect a recovering economy? Blake Christian has more...

Asia Pacific Today, March 22, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. Julian Assange's fight for freedom & free speech is our fight for free speech with Trevor Fitzgibbon

Trevor FitzGibbon is president of Silent Partner and is an award-winning PR strategist with more than 20 years of experience.

His work has primarily focused on defending human rights, whistle-blowers, and exposing corruption throughout his career. Trevor’s clients have ranged from Google and Amnesty International to Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Google Foundation, Pearl Jam.

He has built and led a multi-million-dollar communications firm working with companies, organizations, and individuals on cutting-edge campaigns. He also handled media relations for the Obama campaign in the state of New Mexico in 2008.

EDITORIAL

Is Joe Biden really the Leader of the Free World?

To casual observers, things have changed overnight since Joe took over the Oval Office and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took control of Congress.

A frail Joe Biden has signed at least 37 executive orders, has not given a press conference in his first 50 days as President and seems unwilling or unable to explain his most controversial policies. The Democratic takeover of the Senate continues before a mostly unquestioning or openly biased media.

While there is no threat to the safety of members of congress, thousands of members of the National Guard and 4 miles of security fencing protects the U.S. Capitol complex, likening the Capitol grounds to a war zone. The fence, topped by razor wire, also surrounds the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and other government buildings. What message are the Democrats sending?

Pandemic restrictions continue to restrict the movement and rights of American citizens, in spite of a vaccine and the steep drop in Covid-19 cases. But Biden has removed southern border restrictions, allowing illegal immigrants and felons from Covid ravaged Mexico and other countries, to flood in.

To placate growing public anger about the damage Government has done to American businesses and public education during the Pandemic, trillions of dollars have been dished out by the Administration, with more to come.

All the while Big Tech, which facilitated the Democratic election victory, presents a growing threat to free speech, not to mention threats issued from the leaders of key institutions such as the FBI and Department Of Defence.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. March 18, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. Gregory Wrightstone Executive Director Co2 Coalition

Today our guest is Gregory Wrightstone, Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition. 

Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist with more than 40 years of experience researching and studying various aspects of the Earth’s processes. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Waynesburg University and a master’s from West Virginia University, both in the field of geology. He has been accepted as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6). Greg is the author of the bestselling book Inconvenient Facts – the science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know.

The CO2 Coalition was established in 2015 to educate thought leaders, policy makers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy. 

The Coalition seeks to engage in an informed and dispassionate discussion of climate change, humans’ role in the climate system, the limitations of climate models, and the consequences of mandated reductions in CO2 emissions.

They seek to strengthen the understanding of the role of science and the scientific process in addressing complex public policy issues like climate change.

EDITORIAL

Election after Election in Australia, politicians sacrifice themselves to climate change - promising to do more to destroy the Australian coal industry and make our energy supply more costly and insecure. 

It's our version of Groundhog Day....every election, from state to federal. Get rid of that stinking coal

And while they like the idea of renewable energy, they don’t like paying the high prices that go with it. Radical climate change policies and the parties promoting them, are rejected time and again.

But it matters not what the people want; climate change policies and their destructive goals become ever more entrenched with their advocacy from global, corporate and vested interests.
 
Most of us know little about the science, or whether human induced climate change is responsible for the bushfires, droughts and hurricanes, that we are told are growing in intensity. Too bad that climate policies will do nothing to address this. And why is the debate so lopsided? Why is it always focused on renewable energy? What about carbon capture, or more nuclear energy capacity - if emissions are really of concern?  Me...I like coal. There is a lot of BS around.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. March 16, 2021`

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. China wants to control the weather with Kirk Clyatt & Blake Christian and the American Rescue Plan.

China is in the news a lot these days. 

One of its declared goals that has received less attention, is that is that by 2025 its weather modification programme will allow China to control rain and snow across an area that is more than one-and-a-half times the size of India, or 20 times the size of the UK. 

China’s State Council said weather modification will "intensify" in areas of mitigating drought, hail, fires and high temperatures, while also assisting agricultural production and preserving ecologically protected areas. 

We don’t know how successful will China be in controlling their own weather but what will the impacts be on neighbouring countries? How will their weather be affected by these technologies and experiments?

And as China ramps up its investments in weather modification technologies, shouldn’t rich countries like the US be doing the same - rather than wasting money and enriching millionaires on renewable energy subsidies that seriously impact energy security and costs to consumers.

We talk to resident meteorologist Kirk Clyatt about weather modification and recent developments in this area.

Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan has just been signed into law. The measure is the sixth major COVID-19 relief bill Congress has authorized in a year, and a sum of “emergency” spending totalling around $US5 ($6) trillion.  

The OECD has already projected the U.S. economy will grow by 6.5% this year, so will this supercharge the economy or just help struggling Americans and small businesses emerge from the devastation of Covid lockdowns imposed by their Governments.

We look more closely at what is contained in this bill and how it will affect business and the economy. 

Blake Christian, a Partner with Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt looks more closely at what is contained in this bill and how it will affect business and the economy.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. March 13, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Covid-19 and the massive fail of Journalism with Trish Wood.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Covid-19 and the massive fail of Journalism with Trish Wood.

 

This Pandemic has exposed Governments and their public Heath authorities and Advisory Boards like nothing else. Putting aside the disastrous lockdowns and incompetence in dealing with Covid-19, a travesty currently playing out is that while lives are being lost, early treatment of Covid-19 using inexpensive and well-known drugs is being rejected in advanced countries such as the US, Britain and Australia.

 

Worse still, eminent doctors who have used a range of safe drugs with stunning success have been threatened, censored and renounced by the medical institutions that employ them. Governments, Public health authorities and associated medical and Big Pharma advisors, mainstream media and BIG Tech are the chief Censors.

 

The cornerstone of Democracy is free speech. If free speech now has conditions to it it is no longer free. If we can't discuss all things covid without fear, then free speech is dead.

 

The stories of early treatment success will not go away and at some point, there will be a reckoning providing we keep asking questions and the media starts to do it's job.

 

Trish Wood is an award-winning investigative journalist who has come to her own conclusions in one of her recent podcasts, which features yet another example of medical censorship involving the low-cost drug, Ivermectin and the author of a review that won’t see the light of day.

 

Some of Trish's works include the critically acclaimed, five-part documentary series for Amazon Studios 'Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer'. Trish was one of the hosts for the Emmy Award-winning investigative current affairs series, The Fifth Estate. In 2006 Trish published What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It. And Trish went on to create I Didn’t Do It, believed to be the first-ever wrongful conviction series.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Renewables & the real costs with Sen Malcolm Roberts. Dr John Coyne & China. Blake Christian CPA.

Australia’s efforts to reduce carbon dioxide will have virtually no effect on global temperatures but climate change policies continue at the cost of billions.

Politicians of all stripes and industry leaders chant of the quest for zero net emissions regardless of its meaning or cost.

Millionaires and billionaires endorse the policies of climate change so how could they be wrong?

Of course, many are making 'squillions'– multinational companies, global equity funds and renewable energy investors who know that 'the money is in the bag' or the windmills, and solar panels.

China is also big winner in the production of solar panels and wind turbines. Meanwhile their emissions continue to rise and its commitment to the coal industry increases in contrast to other countries. It now possesses roughly half of the world’s coal power capacity as well as coal-fired power plants in development.

A steadfast critic of climate change policies, Senator Roberts joins us to talk about the findings of a report he commissioned Dr Alan Moran to prepare. The report spells out the great hidden cost of climate policies and renewables on Australian households and jobs.

On the issue of China, it’s bashing Australia again in language that sounds uncannily like that being used by American Democratic leaders.

In an extraordinary attack recently, China’s state-sanctioned media has accused Australia, Canada, Britain and the US of being members of an “axis of white ¬ supremacy” in an attack on the Five Eyes intelligence network.

We’re joined by Dr John Coyne head of the North and Australia’s Security program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, to discuss some of the flaws in China’s strategic thinking and where that’s leading China. John sees opportunities in countering CCP’s increasingly divisive international policies.

And in the US, the Democrat’s $1.9 trillion Stimulus package has recently passed the House. Blake Christian, Partner of Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt joins us for an update on the bill’s passage and what the final package is likely to contain.

Asia Pacific Today. March 5, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. Covid Censorship & Lack Of Freedoms with Prof Brian Martin and Daniel Teng

Our guests today are Brian Martin, Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong and Daniel Teng, Director at The Epoch Times in Australia.

Brian Martin, Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Professor Martin has been a prominent supporter of academic freedom and has made a great contribution to the research and commentary on dissent, free speech, whistleblowing, and advocacy.

Daniel Teng, is Director at The Epoch Times in Australia. The Epoch Times is one of the largest, independent Chinese-language news media groups in the world, headquartered in New York City. The Epoch Times has experienced censorship in many forms and most recently on YouTube.

EDITORIAL

This Pandemic has demonstrated how quickly our individual liberties can be taken away, even in Liberal Democracies

Governments have given themselves emergency powers, the implications of which many of us don’t understand. These powers and secret indemnities remove accountability for serious harm and mismanagement.

In this environment, we’ve also witnessed tight control of information and Mainstream media and Big Tech have emerged as effective enablers.

So why would we think the Governments would stand up for freedom of expression, or fight BIG TECH and media censorship?

During Covid19, the focus of concern in this country is not hate-speech but misinformation and its danger to public health.

But the arbiters of misinformation – Government, Mainstream media and Big Tech have been the greatest promoters of misinformation during a pandemic – all in the name of public interest.

Houston, we’ve got a problem!

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY, March 03, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Early Treatment of Covid-19 with Dr Vladimir Zelenko

Our guest, Dr Vladimir Zelenko, a pioneer of early treatment of Covid-19 has long been subjected to censorship by a medical media cartel. Last year, Dr Zelenko, found himself in the whirlpool engulfing Hydroxychloroquine after President Trump highlighted the drug’s potential to treat Covid-19.

Dr Zelenko graduated from S.U.N.Y. at the Buffalo School of Medicine in 2000. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and is the medical director at Monsey Family Medical Center in New York.

Editorial

Cancel Culture, Mainstream media and Big Tech had some wins this week.

In Australia, after months of hounding, Craig Kelly MP, an outspoken supporter of early treatment for Covid-19, resigned from the Government benches to become an Independent. Main Stream Media were outraged with Craig Kelly. Katharine Murphy from the Guardian said that Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly. Slap him down.

Prominent members of conservative mainstream press criticised him for his apparent selfishness and crude and destructive populism which they said threatened the Conservative cause and Government itself. Really?

Big Tech continues to threaten free speech, but the Australian Government said Facebook had befriended Australia again after it reversed its ban on Australian news content.

Legislation was passed requiring technology giants Google and Facebook to negotiate with Australian media companies to pay for news content. Unlike big media, Individuals and small content producers will remain subject to the whims and censorship of Big Tech. So, despite what they say, all is not well in the kingdom.

Big Tech and State censorship is rife in the US. House Democrats are pressing cable TV providers over their decisions to carry channels that lawmakers accuse of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories that lead to “real world harm.” Conservative channels such as Newsmax, BlazeTV, One America Network (OANN) and Fox News are their targets.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Australia’s post-pandemic debt risk & Biden's Covid Relief Package

Robert Carling & Australia’s post-pandemic debt risk & Biden's Covid Relief Package with Blake Christian.

Today we are doing what we do for each show. We talk to experts about hot topics and share their information. This is apparently inappropriate now with certain members of Parliament or certain topics.

In Australia, it’s the former Liberal Party’s Craig Kelly talking about early treatment of Covid-19. One of our interviews with Craig was removed by YouTube soon after it was posted. We immediately appealed this decision and received a two word answer. Appeal rejected. No reason. Just Appeal rejected.

That interview is available on the free speech platform rumble.com - look for Asia Pacific Today. We urge you to watch the interview and come to your own conclusions about censorship in Australia. The Australian Government, and most of our leaders have apparently not woken up to the fact that Mainstream Media and Big Tech are flexing their muscles on censorship.

By the way, Graig Kelly MP is now an independent, leaving a hole for the Morrison Government and a lot less backbone.

While politicians, public servants and many in big business have done well during the Pandemic, the livelihoods of many in small business have been decimated.

Aside from the incalculable human cost of the lockdowns, losses have been large in trade exposed sectors such as Tourism and Hospitality, Higher Education and Agriculture. We have also seen a large rise in Federal and State Government debt to meet the costs of the Pandemic and to support employment.

No great reforms are likely with yet another State election due and a looming Federal election. In spite of some good economic news, Australia has much to be concerned about. It seems the vaccine will not avert future lockdowns and external border restrictions continue to constrain growth.

Is bad policy, growing debt and big Government here to stay? We catch up with Robert Carling, a Senior Fellow in the Economics Program at the Centre For Independent Studies. Robert has recently published an article "The Looming Iceberg: Australia’s post-pandemic debt risk"

Prior to joining the CIS, Robert was Executive Director, Economic and Fiscal at the New South Wales Treasury from 1998 to 2006. Previous position have been with Commonwealth Treasury, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He holds academic qualifications in economics and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Georgetown University and the University of Queensland.

In the US, as in Australia, there is little focus on debt and runaway spending. To support businesses hit hard by the lockdowns, hundreds of billions in loans have been made available through the Paycheck Protection Program.

The Biden Administration is seeking to pass it’s $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Package containing further measures for small business, however Covid relief makes up a mere 9% of the entire package. Expensive pet projects and generous handouts to Democratic supporters and states are included.

We're joined by Blake Christian, a Partner at Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt who discusses Joe Biden's Relief Package and the Paycheck Protection Program.

Blake, a national Top 25 OZ influencer, is a tax partner at HCVT in Long Beach, California, and Park City, Utah. Blake has over 35 years of experience providing tax consulting and compliance services to clients that include multinational, publicly traded corporations, as well as closely held owner-managed businesses. He is a specialist in federal, state and local tax incentive programs, and is leading the firm’s efforts in providing tax consulting services for Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs).

Blake's industry experience is broad and includes manufacturing and distribution, service companies, restaurant, shipping and transportation, energy and health care.

Asia Pacific Today. February 25, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19, and is the quest for renewables threatening the Himalayas?

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. February 23, 2021

In this episode, we speak to Dr Paul Bertsch, Deputy Director of Science of the new Land and Water Business Unit at the CSIRO. The Business Unit brings together a diverse team of approximately 650 scientists and technical specialists from across CSIRO and builds partnerships with industry, government, and other research providers to generate the science which underpins sound stewardship of land and water resources, ecosystems, and the built environment.

Wastewater-based epidemiology approaches, to detect Covid-19 in wastewater, are being implemented worldwide as an environmental surveillance approach, to inform health authority decision-making.

Dr Bertsch’s team is at the forefront of developing more accurate tests for Covid-19 in wastewater in Australia.

Prior to joining CSIRO in 2013, Paul was the Director of the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment and Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is the Georgia Power Professor of Environmental Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Georgia, Athens and is an adjunct Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering and Science at Clemson University, South Carolina.

A tragedy occurred recently in Northern India where a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off, triggering a massive flood and washing away parts of two hydropower plants and other infrastructure, leaving 50 lives lost and over 150 feared dead.

While some climate experts rushed to declare this a climate change event from rising temperatures, rational observers point to other causes including the construction of back-to-back dams and rush for renewable energy projects that may have destabilised the fragile environment in the Himalayas.

We're joined by Sanjeev Ahluwalia, is an Advisor at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. Sanjeev's expertise is in economic regulation, political economy, public sector financial management and governance. He has had experience at senior levels in The Energy Research Institute, Ministries of Finance, Commerce in the Government of India and in Finance and Industry in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Sanjeev has a Masters in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University, New York; a post graduate Diploma in Financial Management from Delhi University and a Masters in History from St. Stephens College, Delhi. He hosts a blog: Opinion India (ahlu-india.com) which is also available at Times of India Blogs and writes for the Asian Age; swarajyamag.com and theglobalist.com (Washington DC).

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. February 23, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Friday, February 19, 2021. Politician Craig Kelly speaks out on early covid treatment censorship.

Things get curiouser and curiouser. Despite more than 12 months of the pandemic and the availability of a vaccine, the future appears no brighter and Government overreach has intensified.

State such as Victoria still can't prevent Covid19 outbreaks in quarantine without imposing widespread lockdowns, while border restrictions follow in neighbouring states. Despite their ruinous consequences, governments have not justified such policies on scientific grounds. Worse still, they foment fear with warnings of new, more infectious strains and stories of the virus in wastewater systems.

One question amongst many big questions is why there is no early treatment of Covid19 in Australia? Why are responsible Parliamentarians, eminent immunologists and medical practitioners being censored, bullied or threatened for talking about drugs that are used successfully in other countries to fight Covid19? Even with a vaccine, isn’t effective early treatment still essential?

Can we be confident that Governments are acting in our interests? Is State Censorship now a way of Pandemic Life? What is the role of the media and are they acting as chief censors or reporters of scientific fact? And are we being prepared for mandatory vaccinations with a new vaccine?

Today our special guest is Craig Kelly MP.

Craig Kelly MP represents the Federal electorate of Hughes, in New South Wales, and the Liberal Party of Australia. In government, Craig has been appointed to key posts including serving on the House Economics Committee and the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, as well as Chairing the Parliamentary Committee on Law Enforcement.

In the United States, there is much uncertainty following the election of Joe Biden as President. Many new and controversial policies have been imposed through Executive Order, while Congress has been fixated with Impeachment Proceedings and political theatre. Small business has been devastated by sweeping lockdowns in some states. In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes, said Benjamin Franklin.

There has been talk of both long-term and short-term capital gains being taxed at very high Federal Rates by the Biden administration.

Blake Christian, a partner at Holthouse, Carlin & Van Tright joins us to discuss Biden's tax hikes and the impact on investment.

And as Facebook bullies Australia, Project Veritas released a new video exposing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s contradictory position when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. February 19, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. Monday, February 15, 202. One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts says small business needs genuine IR reform.

Victoria's into day three of a lockdown that could go past the planned five days.

Questions are now also being raised regarding Victoria’s infection control procedures, with a leading virus expert claiming the state’s protocol had failed.

Paul Dimattina is a prominent Melbourne restaurateur, and strong critic of Premier Dan Andrew's Covid-19 shutdowns which continue to smash Melbourne's hospitality industry.

The Federal Government is seeking to support Covid-19 recovery and job creation with its new Industrial Relations Legislation?

All this while our international borders remain closed and Premiers from Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland etc are indiscriminately shutting down their economies one after another. Whether these shutdowns are for 5 days or 5 weeks, they deal a massive blow to private sector incomes and productivity.

So, you have to ask, how serious are our rulers about supporting Australian economic growth, supporting our small business and private sector employees – or are they only helping Big business and Government to get bigger?

Current Industrial Relations reforms may offer better protection for business against unfair claims and clarification of some classes of employees, such as casuals but will the impact of this “reform” be less than we’re led to believe? Can we expect it to supercharge economic growth and productivity growth, smashed by Covid19?

Senator Malcolm Roberts believes so much more needs to be done.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. February 15, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. Early Treatment for Covid-19 reduces hospitalisations and deaths with Dr Peter McCullough.

We shouldn’t be surprised that this pandemic has exposed immorality, callousness and incompetence of Government.

Nor should we be surprised about State sanctioned censorship in this environment.

In the US, advice from the Nation’s chief medical advisor has swung from one extreme to another with no explanation; Government policies have been contradictory and, in some cases, dangerous - in New York City, leading to deaths of the elderly and now on the Southern border.

There’s been manipulation of Covid19 statistics, and targeted suppression by Big Tech and mainstream media.

In Australia, things are not much better. As in the US, there has been little accountability of Government, even in Victoria where bungled hotel quarantine led to hundreds of deaths. No scientific evidence has been offered anywhere to justify widespread lockdowns and the trampling of individual freedoms. We’ve also witnessed the silencing of eminent medical experts seeking to provide evidence-based information to save lives?

Why in Australia and the USA, in contrast to many other countries, is there no early treatment for Covid19, and why aren’t members of the Federal Government and practicing experts not allowed to talk about it?

So what's next, we can't questions these new and very expensive vaccines?

Dr Peter McCullough is Vice Chief of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Professor of Medicine (Affiliated) Texas A & M Univ Dallas, Texas.

Dr McCullough directs cardiovascular education and research for the Baylor Health Care System and is a Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX. He is an internationally recognized authority on the role of chronic kidney disease as a cardiovascular risk state. He is also an internationally recognized authority on the evaluation of medical evidence in contemporary issues in medicine and has published widely. Dr McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published the first guidance for the medical treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Dr. Peter McCullough is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease. He has a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology and has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster.

Plus we catch up with Kirk Clyatt in Las Vegas who shares his thoughts on Covid-19.

By the way, the bungling continues in Victoria. Victorian authorities have held crisis talks over the worsening United Kingdom mutant strain outbreak in Melbourne, with now a new lockdown. Authorities are not only concerned about the growing Holiday Inn cluster, but they are worried about virus fragments detected in wastewater across Melbourne. Emergency Management Victoria feared they have lost control of the outbreak — describing scenes of “pandemonium” at the agency. There's even reports of staff not wearing PPE in the quarantine hotels. Chairman Dan Andrews and his incompetent politburo need to go now. And for gods sake can't the media anywhere in the world start doing their job instead of being the pr firm for Govt and big tech.

Asia Pacific Today. February 12, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Dr Jay Richards & Covid, Lockdowns & China plus Peter Kurti & Cancel Culture.

DR JAY RICHARDS & COVID, LOCKDOWNS & CHINA. PETER KURTI & CANCEL CULTURE.

International experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have all but dismissed a theory that the virus came from a laboratory in China. It would seem that the virus did not come from a lab in wuhan, that the military were not involved, that WHO is hugely influenced by China and that pigs can fly.

Government leaders and public health officials have not provided credible justification for their draconian restrictions on businesses and individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In fact, looking at what’s been happening in places such as California, New York and Washington, and throughout Australia, it appears Government actions have more to do with politics than science.

The lack of transparency and the narrow focus of media on Covid-19 infections has increased public fear and allowed governments the greatest latitude in destroying thousands of small businesses and lives, and taking away individual freedoms.

The headline statistics in the US and in other countries have been alarming but do we expect to see a downturn in infections soon – and not just because of the vaccine.

We're joined by Dr Jay Richards, a Research Assistant Professor in the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, author of many books including New York Times bestsellers. His most recent book written with Professors William Briggs, and Douglas Axe, The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe – is a worthwhile read.

Cancel Culture is a growing, malignant disease that will remove our valued traditions and sow growing dissent.

In Australia, views that are at odds with progressive or woke causes are silenced. Demands for censorship of the Politically Incorrect are coming from senior politicians and representatives of the left, academe, mainstream media and a host of organisations, many of whom are active in promoting disinformation and division.

Deconstruction of history, re-education of children and the masses to accept radical theories of race and gender equality, Big Tech and State censorship and divided, unhappy communities should be rejected.

In the United States, radical race-based and social justice and criminal “reforms” are being imposed, along with threats from the new administration to hunt down supporters of the previous Administration and censor “disinformation” via a new Federal Agency. Collusive and extensive censorship by Big Tech and mainstream media, and social media manipulation go unhindered. Violence and Crime are spiraling out of control in US cities that have long been governed by Democrats.

Is this “only in America” and why aren't Australian politicians and community leaders engaging more actively in the Cultural “Wars” and protecting Australian traditions, free speech and individual liberties?

We catch up with Peter Kurti, Director of Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at The Centre for Independent Studies.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY, February 10, 2021

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY Podcast. Friday, February 8, 2021. Covid-19 treatment & Biden's Tax Hikes.

Ben Bornstein from Covid Medical Network and Covid treatment. Blake Christian & Biden's Tax hikes.

Ben Bornstein from the Covid Medical Network discusses what treatments are available in Australia for people who test positive for Covid19 - if they are showing mild or no symptoms?

Ben Bornstein liaises with world experts in the clinical treatment of Covid19 patients. These experts include Dr Peter McCullough, lead Author in the first peer reviewed early treatment guide for Covid19 and Dr Brian Tyson who has one of the most extensive success records in early treatments of Covid19. The Covid Medical Network is group of senior medical doctors and health professionals who are concerned about the health impacts of the lockdowns used in response to Covid19 outbreaks in Victoria and across Australia. It aims to provide the latest and best evidence about the virus and the strategies used to manage outbreaks.

The website is covidmedicalnetwork.com

In the US, there has been talk of both long-term and short-term capital gains being taxed at very high Federal Rates by the new Biden administration.

We catch up with Blake Christian a tax partner from Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt.

Blake, a national Top 25 OZ influencer, is a tax partner at HCVT LLP in Long Beach, California, and Park City, Utah.Blake has over 35 years of experience providing tax consulting and compliance services to clients that include multinational, publicly traded corporations, as well as closely held owner-managed businesses. He has specialized in federal, state and local tax incentive programs, and is leading the firm’s efforts in providing tax consulting services for Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs).

Blake's industry experience is broad and includes manufacturing and distribution, service companies, restaurant, shipping and transportation, energy and health care.

ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Sanjeev Sabhlok, Covid-19 & public health terrorism. Plus Kirk Clyatt recovering from Coronavirus.

Is the approach for COVID-19 simply wrong?

Sanjeev Sabhlok, a political philosopher, economist, scientist, and author of The Great Hysteria and The Broken State, says yes.

Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Good or bad?

Kirk Clyatt, correspondent for Asia Pacific Today and international Broadcaster has just recently recovered from coronavirus. Kirk talks about the seemingly long road to recovery.

Asia Pacific Today, February 5, 2021.

THE NARRATIVE. BIDEN'S TAX POLICIES MAY HURT US BUSINESS WITH BLAKE CHRISTIAN. WE'VE FOUND THE REAL CHUCK SCHUMER!

 

President Biden and his Shadow advisors have lost no time in issuing a large number of Executive Orders to enforce their progressive agenda after vowing not to during the Presidential campaign.

 

Orders such as the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline is hard to justify on any grounds.

 

Others affecting border security and deportation of Illegal aliens including criminals, threatens domestic safety and security and will certainly create chaos. Former acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf says the Biden immigration action goes against the law.

 

Today a federal judge temporarily blocked Biden’s attempt to put a moratorium on deportations for 100 days. After Texas sued over the policy, the judge blocked Biden, via a temporary restraining order, from moving forward for 14 days.

 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer thinks President Biden should declare the climate change crisis an emergency so he can “do many things under the emergency powers - without legislation”.

 

The Biden administration has taken aim at the energy sector. What other sectors are on notice for job losses?

 

We talk to Blake Christian a national Top 25 OZ influencer, and tax partner at HCVT LLP in Long Beach, California, and Park City, Utah. Blake has over 35 years of experience providing tax consulting and compliance services to multinationals, publicly traded corporations and owner-managed businesses. Blake's industry experience is broad and includes manufacturing and distribution, service companies, restaurant, shipping and transportation, energy and health care.

 

And have we uncovered the real Chuck Schumer.

WHO CAUTIONS TESTING LABS ABOUT INTERPRETATION OF PCR TESTS. AUSTRALIA DAY & SENATOR MALCOLM ROBERTS

Today Dr Jay Richards joins us to discuss PCR testing and One Nation's Senator Malcolm Roberts says Australia Day is a celebration of our freedom.

Dr Jay Richards, a Research Assistant Professor in the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, and author of The Price of Panic? How The Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe.

The World Health Organization issued a notice cautioning testing facilities about interpretation of the Polymerase chain reaction tests or PCR tests and the risk of false positives. Do you see any significance in the notice or it’s timing?

The Pandemic has seen a total corruption of Government and bureaucracy globally. The media has become derelict in reporting the truth and are complicit with many Governments and the World Health Organization in the chaos that now prevails.

Covid-19 has become Politics 101. Scare the hell out of the population, tell them that you will save them and then get elected. And as for the media, be incompetent and continue the narrative of the Government and keep the panic and fear as a headline and many many headlines daily.

The UK Government is wanting to do the second jab, not at the 3 week interval, but extend it, untested to 12 weeks.

Government leaders and public health officials have not provided credible justification for their draconian restrictions on businesses and individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In fact, looking at what’s been happening in places such as California, New York and Washington, Government actions have more to do with politics than science.

The lack of transparency and the narrow focus of media on Covid-19 infections has increased public fear and allowed governments the greatest latitude in destroying thousands of small businesses and lives, and taking away individual freedoms.

The headline statistics on new infections in the US and in other countries have been alarming but do we expect to see a downturn in infections soon – and not just because of the vaccine.

Tomorrow is Australia Day. Senator Malcolm Roberts discusses why we should be proud to be a part of this great country.

The conversation around changing the date of Australia Day is part of the mainly leftist cancel culture movement, and they want it moved or totally abolished.

Really for most Australians, Australia Day is our day to celebrate this great country. And most Australians celebrate it with a bbq and a beer or Aussie wine.

It's a cross between America's July 4 Celebrations and thanksgiving.

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SHOULD WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE COVID-19 TEST & HAVE WE OVERESTIMATED THE THREAT OF THE COVID CRISIS.

SHOULD WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE COVID-19 TEST & HAVE WE OVERESTIMATED THE THREAT OF THE COVID CRISIS.

What do we really know about the vaccines that are soon to be made available in Australia and what can we realistically expect from them?

If vaccines are as effective as we would expect, why are Governments including the Australian Government still telling us that international travel is at least 12 months away?

And does the public know enough about the prevalence of this disease and it’s real risks. We're inundated each day with breathless media reporting of exploding cases around the world and a disease that appears to be out of control. Should we know more about the Covid-19 test and what a positive test and headline statistics mean?

Dr Eamon Mathieson, is a prominent medical specialist and member of the Covid Medical Network, which has been prepared to speak out about Government responses to Covid19 outbreaks.

The network provides scientifically based information on their website covidmedicalnetwork.com.

The Narrative with Dr Manoj Joshi

THE CHANGING FACE OF JOURNALISM AND THE INFLUENCE OF GROUPTHINK INTO THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE WITH DR MANOJ JOSHI

THE NARRATIVE is an issues-oriented show that discusses and at times exposes controversial issues of the day.

Dr Manoj Joshi, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Dehli.

Dr Joshi has been a journalist specialising on national and international politics and a commentator and columnist on these issues. As a reporter, he has written extensively on Siachen, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka and terrorism in Kashmir and Punjab.

He has been the political editor of The Times of India, Editor, Hindustan Times, Defence Editor of India Today, National Affairs Editor of Mail Today, the Washington Correspondent of The Financial Express and a Special Correspondent of The Hindu.

Dr Joshi was an Academic Fellow of the American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad and a member of the Indian National Security Council’s Advisory Board. He is a graduate from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University and earned a Ph.D. from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.