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What’s the Reason for the Hysteria?

What’s the Reason for the Hysteria?

brownstone.org For the past half-century or more, manufactured scares have been a recurrent part of life. Every year a very small number of people are killed (usually only one) or injured by bears here in Hokkaido, Japan. However, the news media invariably plays up these incidents. As a

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Do They Actually Want WW3?

Do They Actually Want WW3?

endoftheamericandream.com We are getting dangerously close to the “hot phase” of World War III, but most people in the Western world don’t even realize what is going on. They simply trust our leaders when they tell us that we will never have to be directly involved in a

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Ministerial Fun with Vaccination Legislation

Ministerial Fun with Vaccination Legislation

dailytelegraph.co.nz OPINION THE PROBLEM WITH SECRETLY PRODUCED LEGISLATION. We can now demonstrate how the over-riding Covid-19 goal for officials, from August 2020 onwards, was high vaccine coverage. The power and resources directed through New Zealand’s most powerful ministries to support the ‘largest immunisation programme undertaken

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Support for Euthanasia for Homelessness and Poverty

Support for Euthanasia for Homelessness and Poverty

righttolife.org.uk A new Canadian attitudes survey has revealed that over a quarter of those surveyed thought that ‘poverty’ and ‘homelessness’ should be made legal reasons for allowing euthanasia in Canada. The survey of a thousand adults in Canada, conducted last month, found strong support for assisted suicide and

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Playing with the Stats

hatchardreport.com OPINION We have arrived at a point in an election year when our votes matter, so expect some surprising replies to our emails and even some answers to our questions, but, if today was anything to go by, it won’t be without fireworks. Yesterday, I fact checked

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Net Migration Gain Driven by Non-NZ Citizens
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Net Migration Gain Driven by Non-NZ Citizens

stats.govt.nz There was a provisional net migration gain of 65,400 in the March 2023 year, according to estimates released by Stats NZ. This reverses a net migration loss of 19,300 in the March 2022 year. The net migration gain of 65,400 in the March 2023

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The Coming of the ‘Green’ King

The Coming of the ‘Green’ King

Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as National Director of CFACT’s collegians’ program and writes on issues of climate and energy. Skyrocketing energy prices. A health care system in crisis. A growing budget deficit. Where shall the people of Great Britain find answers to these existential

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Living Together First Still Not a Good Preparation for Marriage

Living Together First Still Not a Good Preparation for Marriage

Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet Sarah and Sean just got married. They met each other through a dating website three years ago, and after six months in which they spent more and more time together, Sean often staying overnight, he moved in

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New Zealand’s Relationship with the Crown
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New Zealand’s Relationship with the Crown

Cranmer cranmer.substack.com Lawyer with over 25 years experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. I divide my time between the UK and NZ. This Substack explores issues facing NZ at present under my nom du plume, Cranmer. Last Saturday, King Charles III was crowned in

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Are Our Maori MPs Fit for Purpose?
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Are Our Maori MPs Fit for Purpose?

Corina Shields corinashields.substack.com This week is proving to be a particularly hard one for Maori MPs so for me questions are now being raised in regards to their suitability as Members of Parliament. Two days in a row Maori MPs have been kicked out of the house for

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They’re Coming after Our Thoughts

They’re Coming after Our Thoughts

NewZealandDoc newzealanddoc.substack.com Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. There is an old joke that goes something like this: “Why do Baptists

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Where Do Their Loyalties Lie?
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Where Do Their Loyalties Lie?

Thomas Cranmer commonroomnz.com Thomas Cranmer is a lawyer with over 25 years experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. He divides his time between the UK and NZ. He writes on Substack exploring issues facing NZ under his nom du plume, Cranmer. This article was first

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Children Cannot Consent to Sexual Conduct with Adults

Katherine Drabiak mercatornet.com Katherine Drabiak JD is an Associate Professor of health law, public health law and medical ethics in the Colleges of Public Health and Medicine at the University of South Florida in the United States. Recently, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a report advocating for

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The WHO Has Changed

The WHO Has Changed

David Bell brownstone.org David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics

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Christians Fighting for the Freedom to Worship

Christians Fighting for the Freedom to Worship

Holly Baines freetobechurch.nz A guest post from Holly Baines explaining the work of Free To Be Church in New Zealand and how Christian Concern encouraged them to stand for the freedom to worship. In 2020 the world stood still. Covid swept the globe, leaving in its wake unprecedented governmental

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What Causes Long COVID?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Sick and Tired: Casting a Long Shadow is the April 2023 report of the Australian government’s Inquiry into Long COVID and Repeated COVID Infections. Despite providing a thorough, 239-page overview of the condition generally referred to as Long COVID,

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