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The King of Spending Other People’s Money

The King of Spending Other People’s Money

Grant Robertson has announced that the 2022 budget, due in May next year, will include an additional $6 billion in new operational spending, mainly aimed at funding the government’s proposed health sector changes and also at tackling climate change. More money that we don’t have. More quantitative easing.

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Feeling Quanked by Snollygosters

Feeling Quanked by Snollygosters

And here we go again. Lockdowns are again being threatened by the Deputy Prime Minister. One case of Omicron crosses their leaky border and all bets were off for any thoughts of so-called freedom. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson, in an interview recorded on Friday and aired on Saturday morning,

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Lessons We Must Learn

Lessons We Must Learn

Guy Hatchard Information Opinion Guy Hatchard PhD is a former senior manager at Genetic ID. His research work has looked at the influence of human factors on social and economic indicators. This article presents the association between weekly vaccination totals and all cause mortality for the 60+ age cohort. This

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Why Have They Done This to the Children?

Why Have They Done This to the Children?

Bhaskaran Raman brownstone.org Bhaskaran Raman is a faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. Views expressed here are his personal opinion. He maintains the site: “Understand, Unclog, Unpanic, Unscare, Unlock (U5) India” https://tinyurl.com/u5india . Around the world, there has been widespread fear

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Visualization of the coronavirus causing COVID-19

Prior’s Warning

Mike Grimshaw University of Canterbury Mike Grimshaw is a sociologist, social theorist and thinker in the continental tradition (especially weak thought); a radical theologian who taught religious studies; a historian of ideas; in short an intellectual mongrel by design and practice. Vaccines, their mandates and certificates have ignited heated debate

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Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns

Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns

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

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The Social Cost of Lockdowns

The Social Cost of Lockdowns

Crimes across the country are going uninvestigated due to the number of police officers deployed to Covid MIQ facilities and patrolling the Auckland border. Elective surgeries have been cancelled. Children’s education disrupted. Mental health problems have worsened. Has anyone produced a calculation of the social cost from fighting Covid

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Are They Really Using COVID to Control Population?

Are They Really Using COVID to Control Population?

The idea that the Covid pandemic is all part of some nefarious globalist population reduction plot enjoys some currency on the wackier fringes of conspiracy-dom. Yet it is, on the face of it, a pretty far-fetched idea. Certainly it’s an extraordinary claim. Here’s the thing: extraordinary claims require

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Vaccines Save Lives

Vaccines Save Lives

Martin Kulldorff   brownstone.org Martin Kulldorff, Senior Scientific Director of Brownstone Institute, is an epidemiologist and biostatistician specializing in infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety. He is the developer of Free SaTScan, TreeScan, and RSequential software. Most recently, he was a professor at the Harvard Medical School for ten years.

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MAGA: A Special Members Only Discounted Offer

MAGA: A Special Members Only Discounted Offer

This is a high-quality face mask made in Canada complete with two activated charcoal filters for maximum safety. Adjustable elasticated ear pieces, shaped for comfort. The perfect Christmas gift for the rebel in you or your friends. Special Offer for BFD Members Only. $29.00 PLUS POSTAGE. NOTE:  Free postage

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St Johns Staffing Stuff Up

St Johns Staffing Stuff Up

Adverse outcomes from the Ardern Government’s vaccine mandate were quite predictable to anyone paying attention, and of course, concerns about critical services being interrupted were swept aside by the MSM. Their devotion to paying homage to their piper takes precedence over the sort of thing many of us regard

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If COVID Doesn’t Kill You the MOH Might

If COVID Doesn’t Kill You the MOH Might

#DefendNZ www.defendnz.co.nz An Official Information Act reply to #DefendNZ, from the Ministry of Health, which says that patients with COVID-19 could be eligible for euthanasia, has left National MP Simon O’Connor disappointed but not surprised. In November #DefendNZ wrote to the New Zealand Ministry of Health

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The Worm Really Is Turning

The Worm Really Is Turning

I have now been back in Wellington for two weeks, after a fairly lengthy stay in the South Island. One of the things I desperately wanted to do was catch up with family, friends and a few clients. Some of these are the clients who like to meet up in

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