Frigg The following is my attempt to write a government policy for pandemic response. It aims to be consistent with individualist values while empowering the whole of society to respond as they choose, thus preserving rights while promoting health. 1. Act Morally. Life and autonomy must both be honoured and
Business of the Day is a new segment on The BFD where we promote businesses who have the strength of character to stand up for the basic human rights of their fellow human beings. Coffee on Ascot (Palmerston North) It’s my local cafe and it only opened this year
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com So, I had a little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin and several of her many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent Factory blog
Pyei Phyo Lin brownstone.org Pyei Phyo Lin is a physics PhD student at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. With the surge of COVID winter wave in the Northern hemisphere, the pressure on the unvaccinated to get the shots are getting more aggressive and their daily lives also become
The Ponderer Apparently, the Selwyn district has the highest vaccination rate in the entire country. In her October email update, the local MP Nicola Grigg proudly proclaimed that Selwyn had a 95% first-dose vaccination rate as of October 26. Star News claimed 97% on 29 October. The NZ Herald
covidplanb.co.nz A feature of the covid-19 pandemic has been the relentless highlighting of cases, hospitalisations and deaths of covid-19 with very little context to help interpret the statistics. No matter what the mitigating factors, the story of a deathly and fearful virus is maintained by authorities,
Matt King Farmer, community advocate, critical thinker Northland is home. As a former police officer, detective and small business owner, I understand the local issues. I had the privilege of serving as the MP for Northland from 2017-20, which allowed me to connect with people from all walks of
The Parlermaid Earlier this week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reassured New Zealanders that the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework) Order 2021 (‘the Order’) is “also about providing a greater protection than we have now. By using vaccine passes it makes sure that unvaccinated people aren’t being put
Business of the Day is a new segment on The BFD where we promote businesses who have the strength of character to stand up for the basic human rights of their fellow human beings. This is a list of businesses in South Canterbury that I was sent yesterday that have
Richard Shaw Massey University Richard Shaw teaches comparative and New Zealand politics, with a particular focus on elections and electoral systems. His research interests are in the structure and functioning of policy advisory systems in Westminster nations, and particularly in the roles and influence of political advisers in cabinet ministers’
righttolife.org.uk A study has suggested that more than 10,000 women had to receive hospital treatment following the use of medical abortion pills in England between April 2020 and September 2021. Based on data collected from 85 Freedom of Information requests to NHS Trusts across England, the study
Mary Beth Pfeiffer Rescue with Michael Capuzzo rescue.substack.com Investigative journalist and author. Since early 2020, Mary Beth has written 20 articles on early treatment for COVID-19. She is outraged by the medical injustice and corruption that denies lifesaving care. Articles, etc: thefirstepidemic.com Sun Ng, a retired
John Maunder https://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you One example of what is contained in the above website are the charts of Arctic and Antarctic surface air temperatures from January 2000 to September 2011. Each month Professor Ole Humlum of the The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), in Norway publishes
Donald Digby As part of our return to New Zealand and after serving the required time interned as a guest of the government, we then needed to complete 3 days in “self-isolation”. To be honest I hadn’t given “self-isolation” much thought at first. When you’re coming
Pish Posh “Here be Dragons” is a phrase used by cartographers to describe the wild, faraway, uncharted corners of a map. With the announcement of vaccine apartheid, New Zealand has launched into these wilds. Here be Dragons. Jacinda Ardern attempted to sugarcoat New Zealand’s shameful entry into vaccine apartheid
