Ramesh Thakur

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People versus the blob

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Ramesh Thakur

Addressing a gathering of European nationalists on 9 June, France’s Marine Le Pen said the EU migration and asylum pact was ‘a deal with the devil to flood Europe with migrants, dilute the population and wipe out European culture’. Even if this is not the motivation behind the pact, her comment rings true on the consequences of the levels of immigration from cultures not just alien, but actively hostile, to core European values.
Who Will Watch the Australian Healthcare Watchdogs?

1 week ago | principia-scientific.com | Ramesh Thakur

Written by Ramesh Thakur on June 16, 2025. Posted in Current News Is Australia’s medical regulatory system trapped in a protracted crisis? Speakers and participants at an oversubscribed conference in Sydney on ‘The Misdeeds of AHPRA’ (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) on May 3rd, which brought together an impressive number of health practitioners, seemed to think so.
An Australasian sceptical note on the effectiveness of Covid vaccines

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Ramesh Thakur

According to Our World in Data (accessed on 1 June 2025), New Zealand achieved 75 per cent coverage of the initial Covid vaccination protocol on December 19, 2021, when its Covid-related death toll was just 44, and 80 per cent (tantamount in effect to universal adult coverage) on June 8, 2022, by which time deaths had risen to 2,095.
Who Will Watch the Healthcare Watchdogs? – The Daily Sceptic

2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Ramesh Thakur

Is Australia’s medical regulatory system trapped in a protracted crisis? Speakers and participants at an oversubscribed conference in Sydney on ‘The Misdeeds of AHPRA’ (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) on May 3rd, which brought together an impressive number of health practitioners, seemed to think so. Every Australian is directly affected, either as a consumer of healthcare or as one of the 900,000 healthcare professionals.
The Pandemic Accords: a solution in search of a problem

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Ramesh Thakur

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accomplished important work in its relatively long lifespan for an international organisation, including the eradication of smallpox. More recently, however, its ‘priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine’. The pandemic treaty adopted last month will reward the WHO for its gross Covid mismanagement by strengthening the framework for global health cooperation under WHO auspices.
Rewarding the WHO for Covid Failures

3 weeks ago | sgtreport.com | Ramesh Thakur

by Ramesh Thakur, Daily Sceptic:Using figures from Our World in Data, in the 125 years since the Spanish flu, a grand total of 10-14 million people have died around the world in pandemics including Covid-19: Asian and Hong Kong flu (1957–58, 1968–69), around two million each; swine flu (2009–10), 0.1-1.9 million; seventh cholera pandemic since 1961, 0.9 million; COVID-19 (2020–24), 7.1 million.
The WHO keeps failing upward

3 weeks ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | Ramesh Thakur

The phenomenon of failing upward is only too familiar among the ranks of Australian politicians. People from other countries also come readily to mind as examples, including former US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and European Union President Ursula von der Leyen. Lately we’ve also witnessed this with an international organisation. The World Health Assembly is the governing body of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Rewarding the WHO for Covid Failures – The Daily Sceptic

3 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | Ramesh Thakur

Using figures from Our World in Data, in the 125 years since the Spanish flu, a grand total of 10-14 million people have died around the world in pandemics including Covid-19: Asian and Hong Kong flu (1957–58, 1968–69), around two million each; swine flu (2009–10), 0.1-1.9 million; seventh cholera pandemic since 1961, 0.9 million; COVID-19 (2020–24), 7.1 million.
The ‘New Normal’ in India-Pakistan Relations in an Age of Terrorist Strikes – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | Ramesh Thakur

On April 16th, Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, described Kashmir as his country’s “jugular vein; we will not forget it”. On April 22nd, terrorists killed 26 domestic tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, sparing Muslims. India blamed Pakistan, but the latter rejected the charge, demanding evidence and an impartial investigation. On May 7th, India launched air strikes on alleged terror infrastructure at sites located across the border in Kashmir and Pakistan.
The WHO Keeps Failing Upward - OpEd

1 month ago | eurasiareview.com | Ramesh Thakur

The phenomenon of failing upward is only too familiar among the ranks of Australian politicians. People from other countries also come readily to mind as examples, including former US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and European Union President Ursula von der Leyen. Lately we’ve also witnessed this with an international organisation. The World Health Assembly is the governing body of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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