Alec Hogg: Joe Rogan joins the dots on masks, Wuhan Lab

At BizNews, we have an old fashioned view of the purpose of a media business. We serve rather than advocate. That means we provide a platform from which all sides of a story can be ventilated, working on the belief that one can never over-estimate the intelligence of the community we serve. This approach is based on a deep contention that in our increasingly complex world, nobody owns the monopoly on truth. As we bob along like corks in an ocean of unknowns, exposing our community to all perspectives is the only rational approach. History has many examples of how today's perceived wisdom is abandoned tomorrow..Among widely-held perceived wisdoms being strongly challenged is the origin of Covid-19. Our partners at the Wall Street Journal have been at the forefront of exposing holes in the Beijing-promoted theory that the virus originated in a Wuhan wet market rather than at a lab in the city. But more evidence questioning this is emerging. The WSJ this morning discloses that a secret report from a US government national laboratory stated more than a year ago, it was plausible the virus leaked from a lab. Click here..The world's most popular online talk show host has also entered the fray. In a gone-viral 13 minute clip of the latest episode of the Joe Rogan Experience focusing on the Fauci emails, the host joins the dots on mask wearing and the Wuhan Lab leak theory. More than 2m views, 28k comments. Warning: Rogan swears a lot. Click here to watch..Back home, when the 12J tax incentive programme was launched in 2009, its intention was to channel money into employment-creating businesses. The scheme required almost a decade of fine tuning before South Africans began to properly support a concept which works brilliantly in countries like the UK. Perversely, just as the incentive gained momentum – keeping domestic capital that would likely otherwise have been exported from SA – National Treasury is closing down 12J on the belief it rewards users too handsomely. As a result of the 12J window closing on June 30, all manner of creative ideas are emerging. One of them being the with-hindsight obvious but not previously implemented approach of using 12J to create an assessed loss to be written back against future tax liabilities. In our webinar at noon today tax guru Albertus Marais and Jaco Gerber of 12J company Key Solar Exchange will explain how the totally legal invest-now-claim-later approach works. It's interactive so you get to pose your own questions. See you at noon. Click on the link below to register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1728929673542762252.Given his roots, South Africans are mostly aware of what Elon Musk is doing with SpaceX. But in the US, Musk's out-of-world ambitions are compared with those of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man. Bezos took the challenge a step further yesterday with the announcement he (and his brother) will be passengers on his Blue Origin company's first space flight. SpaceX may have been the Sputnik to Bezos's Apollo. But his rival is determined to become the first of them to personally visit space..PS We've changed the workflow on our BizNews Power Hour, conducting interviews as the news breaks rather than pushing them into the 5:30pm transmission on biznewsradio.com and FMR. The interviews are conducted via our virtual studio and broadcast live on YouTube – subscribe to our channel and you'll be pinged when a live interview is about to begin. Yesterday's one on Thungela Resources is a good example – click here..PLEASE READ – FOR YOUR WSJ.COM ACCESS….As a Premium subscriber you are entitled to full membership of wsj.com (normal price $29 a month). Be sure to action your access through the Premium link on the BizNews website. Because of The Wall Street Journal's credential requirements, be sure to create a password which has at least 8 characters and includes at least one letter and one number – NB it MAY NOT contain any special characters (ie #, !, @ etc). To maintain access to WSJ.com, you MUST enter our partner's website via BizNews Premium at least once a month. A final PS, if you had previously signed up for WSJ you'll need to clear the cookies from your device. Our help desk can assist – support@biznews.com.

Alec Hogg: Joe Rogan joins the dots on masks, Wuhan Lab

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