Yes, (Aotearoa-New Zealand's own) Newstalk ZB Morning host Tim Beveridge is spot-on this morning vis-a-vis increasing background rumblings of late to progress - an oxymoron if ever there were one! - hate-crime legislation here...
...and by the likes of Green Party spokesperson Golriz Ghahraman - 'surprise, surprise' - a one-time public defender of genocide instigators in such places as 1990s' Rwanda and Serbia/'Yugoslavia'...
As first caller 'Craig' aptly expressed matters this morning, beware the cult of conformity we all seem to be increasingly being *co-opted into.
Yes, we may not, indeed precious few of us do actually buy into - the vast majority of - the various and sundry conspiracy theories being actively promoted and peddled these days especially vis-a-vis the **coronavirus pandemic presently plaguing the globe, much less the conspiratorial-laden pontifications of President Donald J Trump and his maniacal medley of misfits, misanthropes and much more menacing folk to call into question and overturn the result of American presidential election 2020...
Such a cult of conformity is naturally all the easier for one and all to buy into when presented by suitably grave and concerned publicly-respected and esteemed voices, as New Zealanders for instance were regularly, at times daily, dished up with aka the Midday Saint Ashley and Jacinda Covid-19 Standup (Show) in 2020...
*My words/phraseology.
**[Though interestingly enough the ongoing accusations directed at the CCP/the (relevant) Chinese Government authorities as regards the origin (if not the alleged aim/intent) of Covid-19 ***appear to be more and more gaining credibility and currency...
...and by none other than the oft-pilloried World Health Organization, no less...
...including this very day, even moment, as this goes to blogprint...
a certain Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, current WHO Director-general, no less........ has just been quoted upon Newstalk ZB's hourly news bulletin as highly critical of just such allegations or rather their subsequent highly predictable categorical denial and dismissal by those very powers-that-be...]
***My mistake/'fake news' (one might allege)...as evidently TAG's criticisms of the Chinese authorities relate to something else - if not completely unrelated - altogether...
To wit - to quote verbatim from the online report I've just consulted, relating to selfsame Newstalk ZB bulletin -
What Ghebreyesus has been so stridently calling into question was rather China's last-minute blocking of entry to a WHO team studying covid-19 origins...
an expedition to investigate the earliest cases thereof, but only in order to determine how the occurrences jumped species [from bats/wildlife being bought and sold at Wuhan, China's fish markets, supposedly] but was not intending to probe claims that the virus originated in a Chinese lab, 'which has been dismissed by most scientists' apparently...
Whilst said web-article then cited the oft-quoted fact that said 'mission has been criticised by the US, where the ****outgoing president, Donald Trump, has categorically blamed the Chinese for the pandemic', it goes on to include the following:
'Garrett Grigsby, of the US Department of Health and Human Services, said in November the [selfsame proposed, and now incipient WHO] investigation appeared to be "inconsistent" with the WHO's mandate:
"Understanding the origins of Covid-19 through a transparent and inclusive investigation is what must be done to meet [said] mandate."
****Someone's hoping, I mean indulging in much wishful thinking! No, I'm hardly endorsing Trump's antics, only recognizing that he evidently means to go down - if at all! - screaming and scratching...
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