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Jacinda Drop the Mandates Now

Jacinda Drop the Mandates Now

Convoy 2022 NZ Freedom Alliance New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science Outdoors & Freedom Movement The Freedom and Rights Coalition Voices for Freedom 21.02.22 If Covid-19 is now mild, as the Prime Minister stated in today’s post-Cabinet meeting media conference, why do the mandates need to

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Who Is Served by Emergency Powers?

Who Is Served by Emergency Powers?

Ethan Yang brownstone.org Ethan Yang is pursuing a JD from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. The Covid-19 pandemic sparked a much-needed conversation on the use of emergency powers as they are fraught with power temptations and only suboptimal public benefit. President Biden’s failed vaccine

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The Vaccine Industry Has Scored an Own-Goal of Historic Proportions

The Vaccine Industry Has Scored an Own-Goal of Historic Proportions

Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and Computation.

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PM Needs to Reveal Mandate Advice

PM Needs to Reveal Mandate Advice

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Jacinda needs to start answering questions about what advice she has received about whether mandates should continue. Jacinda Ardern has always been the master of avoiding questions and answering with waffle, but she took that to the next level, even for her, on AM this

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When “ Nudging” Goes Too Far

Daniel Hirst amateurreviewspace.com Information Opinion Within the health policy literature, the preferred approach to managing the competing tensions between individual liberty and collective good has in recent times been “nudging”. This approach involves persuading, or influencing, people to act in a certain way by making use of their cognitive

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Parliament’s Arrogance

Parliament’s Arrogance

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. “A society becomes totalitarian when

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to set out plans next week to remove self-isolation requirements for people infected with COVID-19, his office said on Saturday (local time). Britain would become the first major European country to allow people who know they are infected with COVID-19 to freely use shops,

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Sunday Standup

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Dr Guy Hatchard on ‘The Jacinda Papers’

Dr Guy Hatchard on ‘The Jacinda Papers’

A remarkable trove of documents has been created in NZ by an organisation called Te Punaha Matatini—Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa hosted by the University of Auckland but funded directly by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa is headed by the wildly inaccurate Covid modeller Dr

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Open Letter to Christopher Luxon

Open Letter to Christopher Luxon

It is quite disappointing that you have made a decision to not meet with those protesting outside parliament. I would like to ask you to consider the following: I am hearing two very different reports about the protestors: 1. That they are violent and breaking the law. 2. That they

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

[…] in the last four to five weeks, the situation has changed dramatically with Omicron, which is not Delta – it’s much more like a common cold, flu-like illness. And I think we need to move into a space very rapidly of thinking we’re going to live with this and

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Why Does National Think This Is a Winning Strategy? 

Why Does National Think This Is a Winning Strategy? 

Mike Highland New Zealand politicians are notoriously tone-deaf, but the recent statements from National’s new leader Chris Luxon on their Covid-19 strategy are beyond ridiculous. Luxon’s positions can be boiled down to: “I’m just like Jacinda, but without the pesky hair.” National has a chance to steamroll

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The Tribe That Wants Kids Forever Masked

Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a

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Firing and Hiring at the NHS

As is grimly familiar with public health systems, some years ago the Tasmanian health system went through a round of “downsizing”. That is, sacking staff. The funny thing was, though, that while nurses and orderlies were first for the chop, the number of clipboard-tickers never seemed to diminish. This is

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