In this round-up of the week, following the vice presidents debate we ask what we learned from the two candidates who are actually able to speak in complete sentences, and why the debate format is so bad. We ask whether President Trump is really as recovered and healthy as he says he is, And Britain and Europe prepare for yet more Covid-19 lockdowns in spite of the growing chorus of criticism.

In this round-up of the week, the UK tightens and Belgium relaxes their lockdowns even though their covid-19 figures are the same, America descends further into turmoil, and China surprises the world by announcing it will commit to net zero carbon by 2060.

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References

Comres poll results
https://twitter.com/SavantaComRes/status/1308788938463678471

Belgian Doctors open letter
https://docs4opendebate.be/en/open-letter/

Examination of the Spain Covid experience
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/does-the-resurgence-of-covid-19-in-spain-exhibit-exponential-growth/

Countries with commitments to ban gasoline vehicles and by when
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehicles

In this round-up of the week, another shooting in America unleashes another round of riots, but are the protesters President Trump’s best hope of re-election? The UK gets hot under the collar over the BBC’s plan to cancel the song Land of Hope and Glory, and the UK’s disastrous wheat harvest has eco-doomers predicting the beginning of the end.

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References

Detailed account of shootings by Kyle Rittenhouse

https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/kyle-rittenhouse/

Don Lemon CNN says riots are helping trump

https://hannity.com/media-room/this-is-cnn-don-lemon-says-riots-have-to-stop-because-its-showing-up-in-the-polling/

Wikileaks document on Hezbollah and Ammonium Nitrate

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/13/1336443_hezbollah-searches-for-an-alternative-explosive-.html

World grain harvest

https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/record-high-world-grain-production-for-second-year-in-a-row

China’s grain harvest fears

https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3098590/chinas-grain-scarcity-fears-say-more-about-uncertain-relations-us-food

In this round-up of the week, panic provokes lockdowns and quarantines in Europe even though almost nobody’s dying, panic leads to a U-turn in the UK’s position on fantasy exam results so now there are prizes for everyone, and panic underpins the start of the US presidential elections.

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Mallen interviewed on the Ross Trevena Project

http://www.rosstrevena.com/trtp.html

References

Melbourne debates switch to covid-19 elimination plan

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-debates-switch-to-covid-19-elimination-plan-as-melbourne-cases-surge

Release for ‘women make the best covid leaders’ paper

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR846481.aspx

Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic: Does Gender ‘Really’ Matter? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3617953

Denver doctors may have found the answer to a pandemic mystery: What happened to all the heart attacks?

https://coloradosun.com/2020/08/17/denver-coronavirus-deaths-heart-attack/

In this round-up of the week, anger is rising in the shell-shocked city of Beirut, leaked video evidence throws a new light on the murder of George Floyd and President Trump and Joe Biden are in a tightly fought contest to see which can do the most self-harm to their own campaigns.

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References 

What really happened at the Port of Beirut? By Dr Mordechai Kedar https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/beirut-port-explosion/

In this round-up of the week, European governments are terrified of what seems to be an emerging second wave of covid-19. Americans fight partisan wars over masks and hydroxychloroquine, and the tech companies take another step in the censorship of bad thoughts.

Includes the mask debate, the Frontline Doctors of America video, Trump's comments on election fraud, hydroxychoriquin and more. 

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The Mallen Baker Show is aimed at all people who see themselves as change makers, with commentary on issues and change movements with a particular focus on climate change and environment, social issues, free speech and corporate social responsibility.

References

Covid-19 Opinion Tracker https://www.kekstcnc.com/media/2793/k...

 I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn’t Let Me Speak https://quillette.com/2020/07/29/why-... 

Destroyer Mariko https://www.youtube.com/user/DestroyerMariko
Mariko's Patreon https://www.patreon.com/destroyermariko

In this round-up of the week, the US media shows shocking partisan bias as America sinks deeper into conflict, the UK is faced with the evidence of Russia’s attempts to do it harm and Britain’s climate campaigners turn against each other. 

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The Mallen Baker Show is aimed at all people who see themselves as change makers, with commentary on issues and change movements with a particular focus on climate change and environment, social issues, free speech and corporate social responsibility. 

This episode talks about The Russia Report, looking at Russian interference in the UK elections, Brexit and Scottish Independence referendum. It looks at President Trump, blaming the Black Lives Matter protests for spreading Covid-19. It looks at Isaiah Jackson, who knelt on the neck of a two-year-old toddler to promote Black Lives Matter, and we talk about the Beyond Politics Party, offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, brainchild of Roger Hallam, which this week covered the buildings of environmental NGOs such as Greenpeace with paint in protest at their failure to rebel against the government.

References

Paper on Black Lives Matter protests and social distancing
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408.pdf

Paper on Black Lives Matter protests and social distancing
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408.pdf

In this round-up of the week, we learned that Data and research are obliterated if they tell us things we don’t want to hear. The world wakes up to how vulnerable it’s made itself to communist China. And leading figures on the left get cancelled for signing a letter calling for the end of cancel culture.

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Mallen interviewed on The Amish Inquisition podcast 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HntVHaq5bdE 

The Mallen Baker Show is aimed at all people who see themselves as change makers, with commentary on issues and change movements with a particular focus on climate change and environment, social issues, free speech and corporate social responsibility.

References

Trump rally ‘likely source’ of surge

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-08/health-official-trump-rally-likely-source-of-virus-surge

Demonstrations may have caused surge, Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cities-protests-coronavirus-cases-black-lives-matter

Fauci comments on Covid-19

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-coronavirus-spreads-striking-efficiency-creates-perfect-storm-2020-7

Retraction Notice

https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PNAS_STATEMENT.pdf

Heather MacDonald on the retraction

https://apkmetro.com/i-cited-their-study-so-they-disavowed-it/

Harpers letter

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Response letter to the Harpers original

https://theobjective.substack.com/p/a-more-specific-letter-on-justice

In this round-up of the week, the surge in the south puts the coronavirus back on the US agenda. A backlash grows against Black Lives Matter the organisation, and Facebook refuses to censor political speech while censoring political speech.

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The Mallen Baker Show is aimed at all people who see themselves as change makers, with commentary on issues and change movements with a particular focus on climate change and environment, social issues, free speech and corporate social responsibility.

In this round-up of the week, anti-racism campaigners choose increasingly bizarre targets, battles are won against cancel-culture but mostly the war is being lost, and France’s citizens assembly on climate change comes up with its list of demands. 

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The Mallen Baker Show is aimed at all people who see themselves as change makers, with commentary on issues and change movements with a particular focus on climate change and environment, social issues, free speech and corporate social responsibility.

References

Photos: So who was Hans Christian Heg? Here's why the Civil War hero had a statue

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime-and-courts/photos-so-who-was-hans-christian-heg-heres-why-the-civil-war-hero-had-a/collection_31313606-691a-52d2-a4fa-cbe4eca84f73.html#anchor_item_5

BLM leader says they will ‘burn down the system’
https://disrn.com/news/blm-president-says-movement-prepared-to-burn-down-the-system

Trump responds to ‘treason’

https://disrn.com/news/president-trump-calls-blm-leaders-remarks-treason-sedition-insurrection 

Jake Hepple defends his case
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/24/burnley-fan-behind-white-lives-matter-banner-insists-not-racist-12897432/

Hepple was fired
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11708/12014029/burnley-fan-jake-hepple-sacked-for-part-in-white-lives-matter-banner

Hepple’s girlfriend rejected ‘sensitivity training’ and was fired
https://summit.news/2020/06/24/girlfriend-of-man-who-flew-white-lives-matter-banner-fired-from-her-job/

Stu Peters reinstated at Manx Radio
https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/stu-peters-is-back-but-live-calls-axed/

Free Speech Union
https://freespeechunion.org/

Cambridge University rescinds Jordan Peterson invitation

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/20/cambridge-university-rescinds-jordan-peterson-invitation

Frances’ Citizen Assembly on Climate Change

https://www.conventioncitoyennepourleclimat.fr/

Residents sue Seattle over CHAZ
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/us/seattle-protest-zone-chop-lawsuit/index.html