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
“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
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
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
Mrs P It has been slightly humorous over the last few days to hear statements from various politicians to the effect that “we don’t know what the protests are about” and “the messaging isn’t clear”. Being so confuddled by what really is quite a straightforward matter, they appear
I would like to take this moment, as an Australian, to thank Jacinda Ardern from the bottom of my heart. For months, the glaring spotlight of world media has been focused on Australia — and not in a good way. Covid camps in the outback, closed borders, and rubber bullets at
Mary Beth Pfeiffer rescue.substack.com Mary Beth Pfeiffer is an investigative journalist who is outraged by the government’s abject failure to stop COVID-19 by treating it early. Censorship and greed have fueled this pandemic. Her articles: https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/new-index This article is part of
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FreeNZ Media Newsletter freenz.substack.com In response to the attacks on our colleague Liz Gunn by the NZ media, I would like to introduce the FreeNZ media/news company and to offer the NZ public some broad insights into who we are as an organisation, as individuals, and what
New Zealanders are fed up with two years of government interference and are inspired by the success of the Canadian truckers’ freedom convoy’s pressure on authorities to ease and drop Covid mandates. This week the premiers of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta announced plans to end several
I feel absolutely sickened at what I am seeing at the Freedom Convoy protest in Wellington. This is not New Zealand; a young naked woman being dragged out of the crowd by her hair, thrown to the ground; four cops dealing to a slight young woman while they avoid a
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Hi David I note the following from a RNZ report: ACT leader David Seymour was similarly derisive of the approach. “It’s possible to have a peaceful protest
Yesterday saw a disgraceful degradation of democracy when the Police moved to try and shift peaceful protesters from Parliament’s forecourt after Speaker Trevor Mallard channelled his inner fascist and sent in the Police. When the Government pummels you with propaganda, coerces you to be vaccinated, mandates you out of
You have taken my career and my freedoms but we have levelled up now that you are coming after my kids. My 18-year-old couldn’t join the army! My 17-year-old can’t get his restricted licence! My 15-year-old can’t go on a school
As I keep saying, they will never let us be free again, if they can help it. “They” being the cabal of politicians and bureaucrats, and their media camp-followers, who’ve gotten a taste for absolute power, thanks to the pandemic, that they’re in no mood to relinquish.
