COVID-19
San Francisco Mayor Was Just Exposed for Breaking Her Own Mask Mandate—and She’s Not Sorry
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. San Francisco Mayor London Breed reinstated a mask mandate for her city on August 2 amid the rise of the COVID Delta variant. However, the mayor was just exposed for
Britain Latest to Abandon Vaccine Passports
One thing you can’t accuse the Australian or New Zealand governments of is quick thinking. Despite her retrospective claims of “hardernurly” lockdowns in 2020, the timeline shows that Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks before announcing the first Level 4 lockdowns. Not coincidentally, the first lockdowns occurred around the time
Thousands of Aucklanders Cross into Northland before Lockdown
The Government must clarify why it allowed thousands of Aucklanders to cross into Northland in the six hours prior to New Zealand’s Level 4 lockdown, National List MP based in Whangarei Dr Shane Reti says. Answers to written questions show 3316 vehicles with an Auckland residential address made their
One in Three Australian Businesses Considering Closing
There’s an old anecdote about a visitor to Maoist China noting all the workers toiling with buckets and spades to dig a massive dam. Why not get a couple of bulldozers? he asks. Because, the cadre replies, then we wouldn’t have full employment. It’s easy to laugh
Op-Ed: The US Public Moved on from COVID Months Ago… but No One Told the Media or Self-Worshipping Health Officials
John Scott Lewinski rt.com As a journalist, John Scott Lewinski hustles around the world, writing for more than 30 international news organization covering news, lifestyle and technology. As an author, he is represented by the Fineprint Literary Agency, New York. Information Op-Ed Despite the efforts of progressives spreading
Government All over the Place on Completing Vaccine Roll Out
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government can’t answer the simple question, when will it deem the vaccination roll out to be complete, after Chris Hipkins appeared in front of the Health Select Committee this morning. The Government says it is relying on advice from Prof. Sir David Skegg. That
Denmark Says Move over Sweden as Government Lifts All COVID Restrictions—Because of High Vaccination Rate?
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,
Fauci’s Damnable Silence on Wuhan
Given the Chinese Communist Party’s lifelong commitment to secrecy and lies, we’ll probably never know precisely what happened in Wuhan in the last months of 2019 but we’re starting to get a pretty good idea from circumstantial evidence. And it’s not looking good for a lot
Aucklanders Overjoyed They Can Now Wait in a 4-HOUR Queue for Cold K.F.C
John Black stuffednz.net Information Satire With the change in alert levels from 4 to 3, residents of New Zealand’s biggest city are wildly excited at the prospect of life continuing almost exactly as it had before. But now with the option to stuff their faces with fast food.
The Great Escape
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Ardern Coup Expected Soon
Information Satire Labour Government Explainer Editor: Rumours of a coup against Jacinda Ardern which have been circulating for months amongst the nation’s journalists have now materialised. According to sources within the Labour Party, there is dissatisfaction about Jacinda Ardern’s handling of everything from Kiwibuild, rent rises, He Puapua
Violent Protests Show a City at Breaking-Point
Watching the violent protests in Melbourne on Monday it was easy to imagine we’d been transported to 1980s Belfast. Reading the media-political reaction, it was even easier to imagine that we were back in the USSR. If the sight of paramilitary police firing rubber bullets at protesters isn’
A Defence of Democracy and All Her Operatives
Information This article was submitted to both NZ Herald and The Spinoff. Obviously, it didn’t suit their narrative. “You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.” Betty Boothroyd, Former Speaker of the House of Commons.
Ardern Out of Touch on COVID
Jacinda Ardern continues to demonstrate her inability to handle the Covid situation in a way that shows an understanding of business, an empathy with those wanting to return home and an admission that both their MIQ booking system and the facilities are dogs. As we got no apology concerning the
What Becomes of the ‘Non-essential’?
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 22th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. What becomes of the “non-essential”? A government whose chief virtue is PR can normally be relied on to have “good