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Lockdowns Never Made Any Sense

Lockdowns Never Made Any Sense

John Tamny brownstone.org John Tamny is Senior Scholar of the Brownstone institute, editor of RealClearMarkets, and Vice President at FreedomWorks “COVID Has Killed One of Every 100 Older Americans.” The previous headline made the front page of the New York Times in mid-December of 2021. In the subhead it

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It’s Not Your Money If You’re Unvaxxed

It’s Not Your Money If You’re Unvaxxed

As the classic 80s ad catchphrase went, “It’s your money, Ralph!” Ah, the Victorian State Bank… if only they’d made investment decisions as well as they made ads… there might still be a Victorian State Bank. The collapse of the Victorian State Bank was just one of the

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Mood Swing Against The Government

Mood Swing Against The Government

A BFD Transcript Leighton: Rodney Hide, a parliamentarian for 15 years, some would say a successful one, others might argue. “He left his mark”, is probably the most important point, and he continues to do so, albeit that he is retired from politics. He has moved into a part of

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Just like That, COVID Deaths Plummet

Just like That, COVID Deaths Plummet

So, exactly how many people have actually died of covid? Of covid, mind you. Not “with” covid. Not “covid-related”. Of covid, and nothing else? Um… look! Over there! A war in Eastern Europe! (Are they distracted, yet? Okay, let’s just slide out the new data and hope everyone’s

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Time to Stop Sacking Unvaxed Govt Workers

ACT Party ACT is calling on the Government to move on from divisive vaccine mandates immediately and tell its departments to stop sacking workers. MSD has begun sacking up to 220 unvaccinated staff despite receiving advice to pause terminations. “This is the most divisive government in a generation. Sacking workers

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They Mustn’t Think For Themselves

They Mustn’t Think For Themselves

A BFD Transcript Leighton Smith: Rodney Hide, ex-politician in parliament for 15 years, leader of the ACT party for a number of those. He falls into the group of people with whom I love to have conversation. Rebellion or protest, call it what you want, support or otherwise, it makes

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

‘My business, nobody else’s’: Mayor to remain unvaxxed despite Novavax claims https://t.co/lJh6lhaqPN pic.twitter.com/fJzIJVXr19 — nzherald (@nzherald) March 9, 2022 Face of the Day If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable

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The Twisted Reign of Baron von Munchausen (By Proxy)

The Twisted Reign of Baron von Munchausen (By Proxy)

Craig Pirrong brownstone.org Dr Pirrong is Professor of Finance, and Energy Markets Director for the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business of the University of Houston. He was previously Watson Family Professor of Commodity and Financial Risk Management at Oklahoma State University, and a faculty

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Gidday from the UAE

Gidday from the UAE

Alpha Whiskey Good morning I write to you from my desk in the UAE. It’s been a thoroughly wonderful winter with temperatures between 22 and 30°C, but I fear that that will change soon as we start the climb into the late 40s over summer. As a major

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A Time for Plain Speaking at WHO

A Time for Plain Speaking at WHO

Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food safety testing and certification company (now known as FoodChain ID) Information Opinion Yesterday the World Health Organisation issued an Interim Statement on COVID-19 vaccines in the context of the circulation of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variant from

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Crashing Down like a House of Cards

Crashing Down like a House of Cards

Now that the full implications of the High Court ruling that vaccine mandates for Police and Defence Force workers were unlawful are being understood, the Public Service Commission has advised government departments and agencies to “pause” the dismissal of staff who are refusing to get vaccinated: Government departments and agencies

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Read this internal communication from the Waitemata DHB carefully. We have seen the firing of all staff members who made an informed decision not to take the Covid jab. This was apparently due to a desire to reduce the risk to patients and other staff. We have seen that the

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Stupid Rules Make No Sense at All

Stupid Rules Make No Sense at All

The nonsensical, illogical and ridiculous rules just keep piling in. The regime has now decided that because the hospitals are being overrun with sick vaccinated and boosted people, they can now allow Covid positive health workers to return to work. Critical healthcare workers who have Covid-19 can now return to

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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Your Sole Sources of Lies

Your Sole Sources of Lies

When it comes to railing against “covid-19 misinformation”, the mainstream media really might want to sit this one out. After all, they’re the ones who’ve lied, shouted down actual experts while promoting glorified lab technicians and scientists with unrelated qualifications as “experts”, and endlessly, endlessly hammered fear and

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