The bootlickers and cowards cheering on lockdowns like to accuse people demanding their most basic freedoms of being “selfish”. But who’s really selfish? The person who advocates that the tiny minority vulnerable and afraid should be protected should they so wish, while everyone else be allowed to choose to
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A thought-inducing story for gullible New Zealander’s appeared in Britain’s Financial Times. It quoted Estonia’s attractive female Prime Minister Kaja Kallas saying, “lasting damage to western liberal democracies which adopted authoritarian measures during the pandemic could occur. Some countries had been
Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. A favourite childhood book of mine is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was made into a couple of movies, one with Gene
Adelaide newspaper The Advertiser reported that the deaths included 5 under the age of 65 with the youngest being 15. The story in The Advertiser is dated July 9, 2019. It is well before the world had even heard of Covid-19, and understandably, the South Australian Government was concerned.
The Government’s excruciatingly slow and chaotic vaccine rollout shows it has no idea how to get the lifesaving vaccine to New Zealanders, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “And this weekend’s mass vaccination event is indicative of just how much of a debacle the Government’s rollout
There was a time when a country woman’s proudest boast was that her scones won the blue ribbon at the local show. For nearly 200 years, agricultural shows were the highlight of the rural calendar. In an extensively urbanised Australia, they also brought the country to the city for
Just how many lies have we been sold about the Wuhan pandemic? Not just the blatant lies from the Chinese Communist Party, but from our “sole sources of truth”? The daily shrieking of cases, infections, hospitalisations, blah-blah-blah. These daily doses of fear-porn have been used to keep
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! – Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” You’ve got to hand it to The Australian’s Adam Creighton: he’s one of the few mainstream journalists brave enough to tell the truth about the basic uselessness of lockdowns. Now, he’
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The biggest problem so far for the vaccination programme has been the lack of supply of the Pfizer doses, and debate continues as to whether
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The journalist who has covered the vaccine rollout best is the Herald’s Derek Cheng. On Thursday he reported on the Government’s latest explanation
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. A consensus is emerging that the Government has generally managed the Covid crisis very well over the last 18 months, but they have dropped the
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Oiwan Lam Regional Editor for Northeast Asia globalvoices.org A media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. My Chinese writings are in inmediahk.net and my Twitter account is @oiwan. A few dozen Chinese cities have introduced restrictive policies banning unvaccinated people from visiting public venues including
Despite the incessant hysteria of the political elite and their media lickspittles, the Chinese virus hasn’t proved exactly the plague apocalypse we’ve been told. The death toll in Australia remains far lower than even for recent bad flu seasons, and a mere fraction of the leading causes of
As I’ve written before, I’ve often wondered what it was like to see a free country slide into authoritarianism around you — and in the past 18 months, I’ve got to see exactly what it’s like. Australians, like the rest of the world, have been herded like
