Just to show how even-handed they are and to provide in-depth background on the End-the-Mandates protest, Thomas Coughlan penned an article answering ‘your protest questions‘. It included this gem: Brent M: Why isn’t Ardern showing voters respect and talking to them? They may not be protesting in a way
Ex-journo The oafish behaviour of Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard in his treatment of protesters at parliamentary grounds should not be a surprise. Turning on sprinklers and booming out crass music are just two of the latest examples in his long history of being a pompous ass. Before being
Early yesterday three mates and I jumped in a private plane and flew to Wellington to attend the protest. It was a beautiful day for flying and we made very good time to Paraparaumu. Another mate picked us up and drove us in to Wellington, where I was expecting traffic
So, at last, the guidelines to let our citizens return have been released by Dear Leader and the good doctor. Well! Whoopy Doo! What a load of idiotic nonsense. From the end of March, a New Zealand Traveller Declaration will require travellers to complete an online declaration prior to travel
CCVAG hartgroup.org Thursday, 10th February 2022, updated 13th February 2022 To: Professor Wei, JCVI Professor Sir Chris Whitty, CMO Rt Hon Sajid Javid, Secretary of State, DHSC CC Rt Hon Boris Johnson, Prime Minister Dear Professor Wei, Professor Whitty and Mr Javid, We wrote to you and also the
Simon Black sovereignman.com Information Satire Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain
The protest in Wellington is confusing the elites of the media and the politicians. They are arrogantly trying their best to ignore, belittle, denigrate and destroy the protest. Between the Police, the media the Wellington City Council, the political parties and Parliament they have tried their very best to make
Donald Boudreaux brownstone.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with Brownstone Institute and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor of economics and former economics-department
Vinay Prasad brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author
Information Opinion In March 2021 the letter copied below was printed in the Howick and Pakuranga Times. Now let that sink in. The letter you read was penned almost a year ago! Long before the current protests taking place in Wellington! Also, consider that the letter was copied widely – including
Matt Judd Information Opinion We crossed a Rubicon a few years back. What year? I can’t really say. Maybe it happened gradually. Maybe it just happened all at once, while we were watching Australian Married At First Sight, or British Big Brother or something equally voyeuristic and empty. But
On February 7th, Stuff decided to run an article comparing the current COVID outbreak with the Spanish Flu of 1919. Here is the most interesting part: As the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third year, and the death toll in the United States reaches 900,000, the 1918 influenza pandemic
Jack thecommoner.substack.com Tune in to the local news channel every night at six o’clock and one may well find themselves left with the impression that in New Zealand, despite the best efforts of those horribly backwards “far-right anti-vaxxers” who seem to care a little too much about
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche makes his remark about the abyss (in Beyond Good and Evil) just after cautioning the reader that
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Tim Hsiao fee.org Tim Hsiao is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Arkansas Grantham. As employers and governments have become more stringent with COVID vaccination requirements, many are no longer honoring conscientious or religious exemptions to vaccination. This is a mistake. Even if vaccination is
