Louise M Diack Governments have an unfortunate habit of getting things wrong and failing to change course, even as developing events demand they should. Rather than level with the people of the country, they double down and keep spinning in the hope people won’t notice. Of course, the people
Hamish McCallum Griffith University Hamish’s areas of expertise are: the ecology of infectious diseases, conservation biology and quantitative ecology. These are very early days in terms of our understanding the Omicron variant. What is known is that it has a large number of mutations, particularly in the spike protein
MacIntosh Ross Biao Teng mercatornet.com MacIntosh Ross is an assistant professor in kinesiology at Western University in Ontario. Biao Teng is Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. On Nov. 2, 2021, Chinese tennis pro Peng Shuai took to Weibo — a Chinese microblogging site — to recount her alleged
Dion O’Neale Andrew Sporle Emily Harvey Steven Turnbull University of Auckland Dion’s research is in the area of network science and complex systems, including spreading processes on networks. Andrew Sporle is a social researcher who works mainly for my own research and analytics companies but I also teach
Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire In a joint announcement this morning involving the PM and James Shaw, the Princess Ardern Government of Aotearoa NZ (PAGANZ) have revealed a new energy-saving initiative. “James has been using his time in MIQ most productively, and we’re really pleased to
Louis Houlbrooke taxpayers.org.nz The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is challenging the New Zealand Film Commission’s funding criteria after it gave anti-dairy documentary Milked a $48,550 “finishing grant”. The film, currently screening in New Zealand cinemas, argues that the dairy industry causes climate change, pollutes water,
Wendy Clark hobsonspledge.nz The Government has no mandate for the introduction of a “Partnership” or “Co-Governed” arrangement when it comes to the provision of Health Services. Nor does it have a mandate for He Puapua and yet it is being implemented in the shape of this Bill. This
HR Hi everyone. The BFD is humming even more than usual with 1.7 million or so people being in lockdown until recently and highly likely to be locked down again. The hot topics are, of course, covid, the government and the media. Emotions are high and commenters obviously want
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Dr. Julie Ponesse is a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron
Andrew Moran libertynation.com Economics Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Andrew has written extensively on economics, business, and political subjects for the last decade. He also writes about economics at Economic Collapse News and commodities at EarnForex.com. He is the author of “The War on Cash.” You can learn more
Jordan Schachtel ronpaulinstitute.org What a small world we live in. The “Nu variant” scare you keep hearing about is coming from the same people and institutions that spawned the last COVID scare, and the one before that, and the one before that one, dating back all the way to
Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire Facing a reputational ‘hit’ with his denouncement of Ivermectin as an effective prophylactic and early-stage treatment for COVID-19, as being ‘horse medicine’ Dr Ashley (Just a Little Prick) Bloomfield has in a surprising move doubled-down on his rhetoric. ‘Look we
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Pish Posh It used to be you can’t complain if you didn’t vote. We have been pushed rapidly into unwelcome and totally uncharted territory where you can no longer complain if you don’t get on your tractor, join a gridlock, sing a waiata at a vaccine clinic,
Manly D. Hall. amateurreviewspace.com “If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?” George Orwell Since the introduction of hydrogen bombs, and the general buildup of civilization-ending weapons by multiple nations, including the United States,
Michael Flinn Please help me out here. I’m starting to think that the words of Queen’s great song apply to me: “I’m one card short of a full deck, I’m not quite the shilling. One wave short of a shipwreck. I’m not my usual top-
