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Major IT Scandal Raises Questions about Vaccine Roll Out

Major IT Scandal Raises Questions about Vaccine Roll Out

National’s spokesperson for Covid-19 Response Chris Bishop has this evening released further details of a major IT scandal, raising serious questions about the Government’s Covid-19 vaccine roll out. “Last night I was contacted by two individuals who told me they had raised with the Minister of

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Closed Borders, Travel Bans and Halted Immigration: 5 Ways COVID-19 Changed How – And Where – People Move around the World

Closed Borders, Travel Bans and Halted Immigration: 5 Ways COVID-19 Changed How – And Where – People Move around the World

Mary A. Shiraef University of Notre Dame Shiraef is a researcher who studies studies processes of migration and identity politicization, with a focus on how collective memory takes shape in authoritarian regimes. In addition to her M.A. from Notre Dame, she holds a Masters of Literature (MLitt) in International

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Media Are (Finally) Starting to Reconsider Florida’s Pandemic Strategy

Media Are (Finally) Starting to Reconsider Florida’s Pandemic Strategy

Jon Miltimore 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, The Federalist,

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What I Believe Is a Rational Basis for Your Vaccine Decision

What I Believe Is a Rational Basis for Your Vaccine Decision

Jeremy Harris When trying to find good information and data regarding the decision of whether to take the Pfizer vaccine that will be offered to the public, and having little faith in our government or media after the previous year, I decided to go directly to the source. I have

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Just 10 minutes – that is all a grieving daughter is pleading for so she can say a final goodbye to her late mother. Tapaita Lapao’o is the woman who was captured in a heartbreaking video crying behind the gates of a managed isolation facility while reaching out to a

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Petition to Open the Trans-Tasman Bubble I am overwhelmed by the wonderful response I have had from people contacting me in support of our National Opposition petition to get a travel bubble opened between Australia and New Zealand as soon as possible.

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The Death of a Town

The Death of a Town

March 24th, 2021. Yesterday was the anniversary of the imposition of the first lockdown in the UK. I went on a visit to St Austell, a market town and centre of the once thriving china clay industry. St Austell, with a population of 20,000, is one of the larger

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The COVID Stuff Just Doesn’t Add Up

The COVID Stuff Just Doesn’t Add Up

Last week I wrote that Covid Is Not What We Thought It Was/Is. I had previously written a comment on the last lockdown in Auckland and across the country wondering why, if Covid is the fearsome spreader and killer it’s purported to be, the authorities, having discovered the

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Open Letter to Dr Bloomfield

Open Letter to Dr Bloomfield

A  letter from a Wellington psychiatrist. Dear Dr. Bloomfield, I write to you as a physician colleague and a fellow Eastbourne resident to express my perplexity and dismay over New Zealand’s COVID policy, of which you, as I understand, have been the spearhead. Allow me respectfully to submit to

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How ‘15 Days to Slow the Spread’ Became a Year

How ‘15 Days to Slow the Spread’ Became a Year

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a Eugene S. Thorpe Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. A pastor put out a humorous Twitter poll a few months ago asking how people interpreted “15 days to

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The Next Year of COVID Response Must Be Smarter

The Next Year of COVID Response Must Be Smarter

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “One year on from New Zealand plunging into level four lockdown, we need some honesty about the Government’s COVID Response – it must get smarter or we’ll go broke,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If anyone thinks the COVID show is over, I

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A Tale of Two Wokestans

A Tale of Two Wokestans

Today a tale of two ‘wokestans’, one global and one local, the term ‘wokestan’ indicating a place dominated by woke weirdos and their strange ideas, this time in the financial sphere. First the global wokestan: Read this from our Climate Science Coalition chairman Barry Brill, also a distinguished lawyer and

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Very High Risk

Very High Risk

Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz It’s been about a year since I published my one and only bit of commentary on the plague of 2020. I have written many pages about Covid since then, especially during lockdowns, but none made it to print as I tend not to publish

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So Much for Kindness

So Much for Kindness

Watch the Prime Minister smile and grin when asked about Rael Kwasnik’s case, where he has spent almost a week battling to get home from Sydney to see his 87-year-old father Sam, after finding out he had just two days to live: Disgusting. A litany of failures

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