News Round-Up
- “Will they ever admit they got it so wrong?” – Lockdown-sceptics have won the argument, repeatedly, writes James Allan in Spectator Australia.
- “Freedom protesters may spell the end of Trudeau’s career: Poll” – A new Maru Public Opinion poll shows a possible career-ending backlash against Justin Trudeau’s handling of the freedom protesters, reports the Post Millennial.
- “University lecturers launch 10-day strike as students fall behind on studies” – Thousands of staff to walk out in pensions dispute as survey reveals pandemic has hindered students’ chances of catching up with their work, reports the Telegraph.
- “Plan to jab children aged 5-11 delayed amid No 10 and JCVI impasse” – The expert committee gave its verdict a week ago but the Government’s decision will not be announced until February 21st, for reasons that are not clear, reports the Guardian.
- “Duchess of Cornwall tests positive for Covid” – It comes after her husband the Prince of Wales also tested positive for the second time four days ago, reports the Telegraph.
- “Progress vs Fear: a Deep Dive into ‘Vaccines’, Liberties and the ‘Gift’ of Omicron” – Listen to Omar Khan’s latest podcast on Uncommon Wisdom with Yale Professor of Epidemiology Harvey Risch, discussing the vaccines, the Omicron variant, the legal basis of emergencies, the deployment of fear and more.
- “COVID-19: Northern Ireland to remove all remaining restrictions” – The regulations that are currently in place will become guidance, Health Minister Robin Swann says, according to BBC News. However, the BBC’s “all remaining restrictions” here doesn’t include the requirement to self-isolate.
- “London fails to match national recovery as commuters stay away” – The streets of the capital are only half as busy as they were pre-pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mayor outlines details of TfL fare changes from March 2022” – Large public transport fare increases in London under restriction-obsessed Sadiq Khan.
- “BBC to challenge antivaxers in reality show” – The BBC is planning to bring a group of Covid vaccine sceptics together under one roof and use science to challenge their views as part of a social experiment documentary, reports the Times.
- “10,000 wait for hospital admission as Covid cases swamp Hong Kong health system” – Health authorities confirm a new daily record of 2,071 infections while around 4,500 people tested preliminary positive – another high, reports the South China Morning Post. Interesting, though, that the CCP media organ is specifically highlighting a health emergency in Hong Kong rather than elsewhere, and despite Hong Kong’s Covid statistics currently sitting very low by international and regional standards.
- “Sweden recommends fourth COVID-19 jab for the elderly” – Sweden’s Health Agency recommended on Monday that people aged 80 or above should receive a second booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth jab in total, to ward off waning immunity amid the rampant spread of the Omicron variant, Reuters reports. Hang on, wasn’t it trialled and authorised as a two-dose vaccine? So does that mean it doesn’t work…?
- “Claims that a ‘Johns Hopkins study’ showed lockdowns are ineffective at reducing COVID-19 mortality are based on a working paper with questionable methods” – Ludicrously biased ‘fact check’ from Google and Facebook-funded website Health Feedback as the lockdown establishment pushes back against the data.
- “Barry Manilow as a military weapon: a short history of sonic warfare” – Thanks to zealous New Zealand officials deploying his music against protestors, the soft-rock icon joins a long list of singers to be used as a psychological threat, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer Trial Whistleblower Presses Forward With Lawsuit Without U.S. Government’s Help” – A former clinical trial overseer for a contractor holding trials of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is pressing forward with a lawsuit against Pfizer and her former company despite the U.S. Government declining to side with her, having taken a year to come to its decision, the Epoch Times reports.
- “New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern blasted for saying ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest imported” – The country’s leader has been accused of treating protesters dismissively amid growing unhappiness with severe Covid restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Covid regime has fooled us all” – Did mass formation psychosis make us easy to deceive, asks Jacob Siegel in UnHerd.
- “Long Covid – a skivers’ charter?” – With the intense focus on Long Covid we are, essentially, writing a skivers’ charter which will be used by the indolent and the disillusioned to take a few days off ‘sick’ without question, writes Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Why global warming is good for us” – Climate change is creating a greener, safer planet, writes Matt Ridley in Spiked.
- “Green hypocrisy hurts the poorest” – The West’s war on energy is crippling Africa, write Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger in UnHerd.
- “Business fires up the back-up generator as costs rise” – Soaring energy costs are hitting businesses as hard as they’re looming for households, making even diesel generators a more attractive option than buying power from the grid, reports BBC News.
- “As Ordinary People Struggle, Net Zero Policies are Killing Britain’s Gas Industry” – Britain has 200 trillion cubic feet of frackable gas in Lancashire, but the climate-obsessed British Government would rather pay sky high prices to Russia, than develop available domestic resources, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
- “Distort the Present, Rewrite the Past” – Following the lead of other major cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art redefines its purpose as overcoming the racism of Western civilisation, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Labour’s obsession with race shows no signs of fading” – Why do the party’s bigwigs only have one way of viewing the world, asks Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Public Sector’s Highest-Paid Diversity Officer Earns More Than PM” – New Government transparency data have revealed the highest-paid diversity officer in the public sector is making just as much money as the Prime Minister, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “America’s racial torment must end” – White people are often the poorest, writes Glenn Loury in UnHerd.
- “Black Lives Matter’s missing billions” – More and more questions are being raised about BLM’s finances, writes Wilfred Reilly in Spiked.
- “Why the well-educated see racism everywhere” – Universities are promoting a culture of racial grievance, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
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The least he deserves.
Latest is that Jussie is going to break out the Emergency Powers first aid kit. He’ll find it contains nothing but a shovel – for digging himself an ever deeper hole.
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He’ll end up a mini Bliar, spreading his gospel of gaiety.
Having an ‘Uncle Tony’ hasn’t done Rafa Nadal any harm. Perhaps it’ll work for TrooDough.
He is still where he is because obviously some people want him there.
Well, looks like the Brits can’t dump the Etonian Thug Boris down the toilet – there’s an adage about sorting your own house out first.
If there were a replacement who would even be no worse, I’d be more interested in the issue. As it is, seems to me all the likely replacements are probably objectively worse on most counts.
We need new political parties and politicians, not a rearrangement of the existing ones.
Indeed; deckchairs and Titanic spring to mind.
If only that poll were a pole…
Peter Hitchens: “A Russian invasion of Ukraine would be an act of clinical insanity” Peter Hitchens is correct in almost everything he says here, and for a similar reason imo to the reason he was correct when he questioned the covid panic back in March/April 2020. Namely, that it stems from the same inherent scepticism and ability to recognise propaganda nonsense when it is sprayed at him. In this case, he also has specific experience and expertise in the area concerned. Like Hitchens, I was a supporter of NATO during the Cold War. When the Soviet Union vanished I was one of those Hitchens mentioned, who said then that it should be ended, with a victory party and medals all round. I recognised that it was one of those big government bureaucratic boondoggles that has a strong tendency to acquire a life of its own, and that if it were allowed to find itself new pretexts for existence, we would never be rid of it. That judgement has proven correct, and since 1992 it has been a positive source of harm in the world, used as a money teat and sinecure for bureaucrats and military-industrial types, and as a weapon… Read more »
Hitchens has been a defender of Putin, consistently.
Whatever may be wrong with NATO and the west, Putin is a dictator and a thug, a repacked KGB agent.
“Hitchens has been a defender of Putin, consistently.” This is exactly the kind of smear used against opponents of the lockdowns, “vaccines” and mandates. Hitchens has consistently drawn attention to the consistent pattern of US sphere aggression against Russia and threats to its security. Any “defence” of Putin merely consists in pointing out these hard truths. As a matter of fact, Hitchens has almost always been very careful to caveat his position with criticisms of Putin (in my view over-egging that side of things) personally, and as an authoritarian and stern leader. Such criticisms imo are pretty daft – any leader of Russia in the post-Soviet era who was not reasonably ruthless and stern would have been destroyed in months if not days. “Whatever may be wrong with NATO and the west, Putin is a dictator and a thug, a repacked KGB agent.” Another repeat of this canard that I responded to you on directly, recently. As far as his KGB membership is concerned, it’s as Solzhenitsyn pointed out, equivalent to Bush I’s CIA service – overseas focussed: ““Yes, Vladimir Putin used to be a security officer but he was neither a KGB investigator, nor a GULAG camp chief. Notably,… Read more »
On the contrary, it is not a smear, it is an observation of Hitchens’ consistency.
Hitchens, let us recall, was a Trotskyist as a young man and is still one in essence, his hatred for America is visceral and obvious, his admiration for the socialist dictator Putin is obvious too, as is Hitchens’ own denigration of free market economics.
There’s no question you whitewash or redwash Putin, the socialist dictator.
In the end, all you are achieving is giving a propaganda victory to a repackaged communist.
If Germany were led by a former Gestapo agent, the evil would be obvious but bozos like you pretend a former KGB agent is somehow different.
Once again, why are you so desperately promoting China’s interests?
“On the contrary, it is not a smear, it is an observation of Hitchens’ consistency.“
No, that is simply false. Hitchens as I noted routinely goes out of his way to criticise Putin personally.
“bozos like you pretend a former KGB agent is somehow different”
If you are too stupid to understand the significance of Solzhenitsyn’s words on this, then I am clearly not the “bozo” here.
No, Hitchens does no such thing, you assert the arbitrary claim that, by seeing Putin for what he is, I am promoting China’s interests.
Your posts are socialist balderdash.
“No, Hitchens does no such thing“
Why do you assert something as fact that you clearly have no basis for believing in? If you had actually followed any of Hitchens’ stuff on this topic you could not possibly have missed his repeated assertions of exactly that kind. Here’s just one, from 2016. There are many, many more:
“Vladimir Putin is a sinister tyrant, very dangerous to challengers. But, unlike his Soviet forerunners, he has no interest in invading the minds of men or in making windows into their souls.“
Peter Hitchens: Why I stand up for Russia
“you assert the arbitrary claim that, by seeing Putin for what he is, I am promoting China’s interests.“
I assert the rather self-evident fact that pushing Russia into the arms of the US’s only real global peer rival, China, is serving that country’s interests. It ain’t rocket science.
“Your posts are socialist balderdash.“
You sling “socialist” around like a student leftist screams “fascist” at anyone who doesn’t adhere to the latest politically correct dogmas.
Are you not even slightly embarrassed?
Anyone remember the video of Chicken Hitchens walking away very quickly from that mob who hadn’t realised who was in front of them.. albeit pretending to be walking nonchalantly and not knowing he was in danger of getting thumped?
https://youtu.be/Cg1S_M293bM
Of what relevance is that to Hitchens’ views on Putin? Or his own conservative social justice hipster views?
I just see Hitchens and think ‘windbag’. I’ve read some of what he has written, and seen him talk on interviews. When I saw him ‘scurry’ away along the road I lost interest.
‘Student Politics’ is one of those subjects that will go on forever and never arrive at any destination.
One of the few mainstream journalists to speak out against lockdowns from the start. Glad you’re not in charge of ideological purity for the movement. We’d not have many members, except you.
That’s a fair description of him on nearly every subject except for lockdown.
Yes, and what I saw was a man walking nonchalantly because he knew he was not going to get thumped.
“ any leader of Russia in the post-Soviet era who was not reasonably ruthless and stern would have been destroyed in months if not days.”
Stern? Despotic, you mean but then despotism is your goal and I can ignore socialist trolls like you.
“I can ignore socialist trolls like you.”
LOL! There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Again, the only interesting issue here is why you are so determined to promote China’s strategic interests.
Same false assumption and logical fallacy about China’s interests, as if Putin isn’t far more aligned with China than nearly everyone else in the world.
Russia and China have many points of potential dispute and indeed the consensus of opinion tends to be that an alliance between them is fraught with difficulties. What has driven them together over the past three decades has been US policy, and especially aggressive confrontation of Russia of the kind you are pushing here.
Indeed, the natural position after 1992, if the US had not chosen to push NATO eastwards would have been a joint US-Russian resistance against Chinese power. That prospect is gone now, pretty much.
On reflection, it occurs to me you’re right and that Putin’s critics, both at home and abroad, either assassinated themselves or imprisoned themselves, just as Garry Kasparov would have done if he hadn’t fled to the US.
Odd that there are so many of his critics still alive and kicking over there.
Does this look like the kind of thing that happens in a brutal dictatorship where critics are routinely silenced by force?
“The chairman of the All-Russian Officers’ Assembly, retired General-Colonel Leonid Ivashov, published an appeal on his organization’s website on Jan. 31 to “the President and Citizens of the Russian Federation.” The sharply worded missive, issued on behalf of the organization, ends with the words: “We, Russia’s officers, demand that the President of the Russian Federation reject the criminal policy of provoking a war in which Russia would be alone against the united forces of the West… and retire.””
Retired Russian Generals Criticize Putin Over Ukraine, Renew Call for His Resignation
You are as much a victim of propaganda on this as a covid panicker hiding in his basement wearing a triple mask is of the covid panicker propaganda.
You’re right, there’s nothing to gain for the west in a war in Ukraine but Putin has been led to believe he’ll have an easy victory.
where would you rather be right at this moment. Canada or Russia?
Idiot.
What are you gibbering about, Communist troll?
It is Western Europe’s energy policies that have led to the situation in Ukraine, rather than anything to do with NATO.
Putin thinks he can get away with aggression in Ukraine because most of Western Europe is reliant on Russian gas to heat its houses. The US and Europe might threaten economic sanctions in response to Russian action in Ukraine. But a massive spike in energy costs will hit European consumers far harder than making it little bit harder for Vladimir Putin to enjoy his stolen billions.
Ukraine’s peril today is the legacy of thirty years of ill-considered green agenda in pretty much every country in Europe.
“It is Western Europe’s energy policies that have led to the situation in Ukraine, rather than anything to do with NATO.“
This is just false, though there is much to criticise in European energy policies. In fact, that German etc dependence on Russian gas somewhat mitigates their willingness to go along with the wilder extremes of anti-Russian aggression and confrontation desired by US sphere elites is one of the few redeeming features of European energy policy.
If you want to understand what has led to the situation in the Ukraine,.listen to Peter Hitchens in the interview linked, and watch Prof Mearsheimer’s lecture from 2015:
Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
Yes, listen to an ancient Trotskyist for accurate information.
Pretty clear he knows a lot more about the topic than you. Nor has Mearsheimer ever been a “Trotskyist” as far as I’m aware.
No, it isn’t clear that Hitchens has never been a Trotskyist but then propaganda is your subject of expertise.
“No, it isn’t clear that Hitchens has never been a Trotskyist “
Odd non sequitur.
Yes, that is correct, the green agenda is repackaged German philosophy and has cut off Western Europe from its own energy.
I rather doubt Putin has been “led” to anything by the relative incompetents in charge of the US sphere.
I doubt Putin nor anybody at a senior level in Russia has any illusions about the catastrophic costs of invading the Ukraine. That’s why they haven’t done it despite the huge costs of sitting back while the US regime and Ukrainian nationalists work against them.
Only an infant would confuse the fact that Russia could easily defeat the Ukraine militarily and occupy it, with the idea that that would constitute the end of the matter – in fact it would be the beginning. And Russia clearly is not led by infants (the jury on that is certainly out as far as the US and UK are concerned).
Only a communist would commit the logical fallacy of argument from intimidation to defend Putin.
Putin would have invaded if he thought he could get away with it, that’s how he operates.
“Putin would have invaded if he thought he could get away with it, that’s how he operates.”
Childish stuff. You need a dose of foreign policy realism. I’d suggest Mearsheimer if I thought you were remotely interested in learning anything about the topic.
You don’t demonstrate anything but expertise in propaganda and posting logical fallacies.
Specifically, you commit the logical fallacies of argument from authority, argument from intimidation and begging the question.
If you are determined to run away into misapplications of logical fallacies rather than actually looking at reality, then you are wasting your own time here.
all the answers to the Ukraine questions you ever wanted to ask:
https://therealslog.com/2022/02/07/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-ukraine/
TY/Will – perhaps a separate post?
Excellent piece.
That piece recognises the truth that Hitchens fails to, which my post highlighted above: “ (It’s not completely impossible, after all, that in future Russia may be minded to do what she is continually and erroneously accused of doing at present.)” The reality is that blanket assertions that “Russia will not invade because it doesn’t want to expand/would be mad to do so” are rash and illogical. The incontestable truths are that the US sphere is pushing towards incorporation of the Ukraine into the US sphere. Russia cannot and will not accept that. If the US keeps pushing, eventually the point will be reached where Russia will either have to accept it or go to war. The only alternatives are finding other ways to resist (but the assumption is that those will have been exhausted by that point), or surrender to NATO Ukraine (de facto or de jure). We have no way of knowing with any confidence when that point is reached. We rely on US sphere analysts to advise us on Russian thinking, but that as we have seen is about as useful as depending on “expert” advice on the coronavirus – generally the ones with the biggest platforms have… Read more »
Your Russophile propaganda is consistent.
About as consistent as your promotion of China’s strategic agenda.
More begging the question from you.
No matter how often you assert a fallacy, it doesn’t become the truth.
You offer no evidence for your claim and can be dismissed for that reason.
I don’t think it’s complicated to understand that China is the US’s only near peer rival in the world, while Russia is a much smaller power, with no possibility of ever being a peer rival as the USSR was, but remains a crucial geopolitical balancing power, and that pushing Russia away from the US and towards china is serving China’s long term interests in its rivalry with the US.
This is geopolitics 101.
My daughter’s downstairs toilet needed a new fluorescent lamp so we went to a well-known shop for this sort of thing yesterday (a bit like B&Q)… lamp Made in Russia, starter unit Made in China.
New World Order?!
At the info desk I asked why the barriers and tape around it. ” So you can’t get near me!” said the boy working there… and then I remembered ‘Coronavirus’.
I said to my daughter ‘FFS!’ in English and he glared at us, probably because we weren’t wearing masks.
It’s a pity swearing is now Verboten here, as it’s one thing that really does help against Covid. And now I just sneezed on the train and have angry eyes staring at me. Should I announce to all that I tested ‘positive’ this morning?
Those who still try to pretend the “Conservative” Party is meaningfully conservative need to explain why, after 12 years of “Conservative” government, we have such colossal amounts of taxpayers’ money stolen and funnelled into these kinds of corrupt Blairite sinecures.
These positions (all “diversity” and “inclusion” positions, without exception), are of negative value to the nation – profoundly parasitic. They exist to reward Blairite acolytes and continue the Blairite social engineering of the nation. Their primary effect, after enriching their incumbents, is to promote identity lobby hatred and division.
When you add all the similar positions created by Blairite directors, or directors desperate to pander to the dominant Blairism, in private business, the sums this country currently devotes to active self harm are simply staggering.
This seems a useful place to remind people that David Cameron, when he was PM, confidently stated in public that the UK had “too many white Christian faces.”
That is what we are up against. The argument against immigration in the 1950s was ridiculed as racism because the children of immigrants would become British, even if they didn’t look like Europeans.
Now we are well into the third generation, and importing millions of fresh immigrants, the examination of those earlier arguments is verboten. The narrative has shifted to exploit the tensions predicted 60+ years ago. Those ethnic tensions are now our problem, and of course require a large bureaucratic response in the form of diversity propaganda.
All of it of course helped along by decades of effort to ensure any discussion of immigration, numbers of immigrants, the cultural background of certain groups and the lack of any consultation is exclusively seen through the lens of race. Masterful in its ability to halt even basic discussions about illegal immigration, a criminal activity easily stopped.
In discussions with others I’ve often wondered at what point the indigenous British will waken up.
You know its gone past the point of ‘repair’, when elections in many northern towns are determined by sub-continent politics.
Sridhar, Zahawi, Khan, Sunak, Javid, Patel, all good British names and all fighting bravely for the Best of British Values. And not just in politics to line their own pockets, oh no!
Team GB.
Lots of white British politicians have betrayed their voters in similar fashion. I’m not a huge fan of mass immigration, but it can’t be blamed for the wider ills that beset us (at least the ills I see them, as a small-c conservative).
Not really how I imagined Cupid… but whatevs. Happy Valentines Day!
Re the Kiwi AOC’s claim that the protest was ‘imported’… from where? Western Australia, perhaps?
The free world. Or what remains of it. Basically, people like us. The remainder of the human race.
Great, a group of BBC selected “vaccine sceptics” to portray our position. Anyone willing to take part knowing the BBC’s intent probably has the intellectual capacity of goggle box, having never read a single study or got past junior school level Biology.
I’d be surprised if any of them could tie their own shoe laces, let alone describe the intricacy of the innate and adaptive immune system, and the very real implications of any of the real biological worries backed by peer reviewed research we have regarding the mRNA transfections.
Time GB TV brought together some jabberoid zombies under one roof and gave them the same treatment.
Yes – but it won’t happen: very annoyingly GB News are playing it all with a straight bat, which, given, TPTB and the other MSM channels, just ends up neutering itself!
kind of. Brazier and The Farage have obviously been warned off. But Steyn and the glorious Neil Oliver are consistently over the COVID/WEF target unhindered.
Typical MSM.
You know it.
What true, thinking sceptic would go anywhere near the BBC in the first place, to appear in a reality show! Most of us stopped watching their mendacious manipulation yonks ago!
This is the BBC article on the Djokovic interview. In my eyes it shows him in a good light. I think it’s disgusting Fergus Walsh has to chuck his tuppence in. I don’t think the BBC will ever learn how to just report the news and let people come to their own conclusions without adding their bias. No wonder they’re doomed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60354068
Fergus Walsh should be among the first to mount the scaffold for obvious reasons.
Canada is now regulating crowdfunding platforms and crypto currency under the Terrorist Financing Act.
https://coinsnews.com/canada-is-now-regulating-crowdfunding-platforms-and-crypto-currency-under-the-terrorist-financing-act
Yeah double down on Tyranny, that’ll work to win the ‘Hearts & Minds’ of freedom protesters.
anyone for a bank run…..?
News at 11.
The national capital, once described as ‘a good sheep station spoilt’, usually resides in the twilight zone of the Australian psyche. We can find it on a map, and we know it’s full of politicians and public servants. But it doesn’t quite feel like an integral part of the Commonwealth.
That changed dramatically over the last few weeks.
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2022/02/15/lockdownunder-update-the-convoy-to-canberra/
Anyone who thinks “western civilisation” is racist should go to China and see what real racism looks like.
Multiculturalism is a “Sickness”
“The strategic consequences of Chinese racism”
“Claims that a ‘Johns Hopkins study’ showed lockdowns are ineffective at reducing COVID-19 mortality are based on a working paper with questionable methods”
Chance to fact check the ‘fact check’…..?
The first thing that springs to mind is that they are dismissing the study because it was done by people who have proclaimed themselves anti-lockdown in the past.
By that logic we should dismiss every pronouncement uttered and pro-lockdown study written by someone who is pro-lockdown, or even has known political leanings that would make them pro-lockdown.
So theres no chance of an academic or scientist producing an impartial and objective paper ever again, as any results can simply be dismissed because of their bias. The death of science and the human race stands still from this point…..?
Nothing like playing the man not the ball!
I just don’t understand what’s so unattractive about a city where you’re likelier to get mugged or stabbed, where it costs a fortune to use/park a car, which is dirty and polluted, where the mayor has just bagged the chief copper for (insert reason here) and where the public trasport keeps breaking down.
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ITEM: “Barry Manilow as a military weapon: a short history of sonic warfare” – Thanks to zealous New Zealand officials deploying his music against protestors, the soft-rock icon joins a long list of singers to be used as a psychological threat, reports the Telegraph. In Australia, there have been (unconfirmed) reports of a more sinister form of audio warfare used against the historic, up-to-a-million-strong anti-restriction/mandate protesters in Canberra, the national capital, last Saturday. A Long-Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), which looks like a square satellite dish, was spotted amongst the armoury of the Australian Federal Police, with the police in closest proximity to the device wearing ear protection. This should be a top news item, and the source of a national scandal, but the mainstream media are ignoring it, and only a couple of senators in the federal parliament are pursuing it by grilling the Federal Police Commissioner (and making him look uncomfortable and sound evasive) at a meeting of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee. In 2016, the ABC (https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/australian-police-buy-up-on-sound-weapons/7419408) reported that most of Australia’s state and federal police forces had bought some LRADs from the US where they had been used to disperse protests including against black deaths in custody… Read more »