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One Year into ‘15 Days to Flatten the Curve’, Why Are We Still Tolerating Authoritarian Government Clampdowns on Our Daily Lives?

One Year into ‘15 Days to Flatten the Curve’, Why Are We Still Tolerating Authoritarian Government Clampdowns on Our Daily Lives?

Rachel Marsden rt.com Rachel Marsden, columnist, political strategist and host of an independently produced French-language program that airs on Sputnik France. Her website can be found at rachelmarsden.com In the 12 months since states first started ordering citizens to stay at home under the pretext of Covid, we’

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Housing In the December 2020 Housing figures just released, the number of people waiting for social housing in Papakura has jumped to 661 people with a “severe and persistent” housing need. Sadly this is up by almost 500 people since National left the

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My 14 Days in COVID Jail

Inmate 357 Day One, Saturday 2 January 2021: My Mask Gets Confiscated. Our plane load enters an abandoned airport bar to be very cheerfully received by very pleasant airport staff who give the impression that they think we are all returning Kiwis and how pleased we all must be to

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National Launches Trans-Tasman Bubble Petition

National Launches Trans-Tasman Bubble Petition

The National Party has launched a petition calling on the Government to get a move on with the trans-Tasman travel bubble, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “There’s no good reason why we can’t have quarantine-free travel with Australia right now. Australia did it for New Zealanders

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What Will Vaccination Mean?

What Will Vaccination Mean?

Free Press ACT Party Whether the Government will be successful in distributing the vaccine is an open question. We want them to succeed but there are reasons to be sceptical; remember the measles fiasco? A more urgent problem is telling New Zealanders what a vaccine will mean. This week Free

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I Was Wrong, Lockdowns Were a Mistake Says Researcher

I Was Wrong, Lockdowns Were a Mistake Says Researcher

FEE Daily Newsletter fee.org Analyst Philippe Lemoine originally advocated for lockdowns to stop the spread of COVID-19. Now, he says he was wrong—and that lockdowns would fail any honest cost-benefit analysis.   “A year ago I publicly advocated lockdowns because they seemed prudent given how little was known at

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NZ Police Admit Border Checkpoints Were in the Wrong Place

NZ Police Admit Border Checkpoints Were in the Wrong Place

On February 15 this year, as a result of one positive case of the ‘Rona that had snuck through our gold standard border controls, the “Princess of Pestilence” threw Auckland into its third lockdown, complete with Police and Armed Forces manning checkpoints on the outskirts of Auckland’s regional boundaries.

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Open Letter to the National Party

Open Letter to the National Party

John Rofe Every year my wife and I each have a flu shot.  Occasionally it doesn’t give the duration or amount of protection I need, but statistically, I am convinced it works. The World Economic Forum (y’know, the globalist billionaires who established the UN IPCC) now says we

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Weaponising Censorship

With a rushed Covid vaccination, politicians around the world are concerned that people may be worried that the vaccine may not be completely ‘safe’. Who to blame? Those peddling ‘misinformation’ of course. ReclaimTheNet explains: […] However, some people, particularly in Europe, for obvious reasons, clearly still feel uncomfortable about advocating any

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Wriggle Room

Wriggle Room

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The Entrenchment of Lockdown Denialism

The Entrenchment of Lockdown Denialism

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of

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‘Dictator Dan’ Hoist by His Own Petard

‘Dictator Dan’ Hoist by His Own Petard

As I reported for The BFD last year, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews’s attempt to whitewash away his hotel quarantine disaster with the Coate Inquiry was surely not going to be the end of investigations into the affair. In a supremely fitting irony, the very “industrial manslaughter” laws brought in

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The Great Experiment

The Great Experiment

Do we throw the dice to choose between taking an experimental vaccine with unknown long-term side effects or risk an experimental treatment to lessen our chances of contracting COVID-19 and to reduce the symptoms if we do catch it? Or do we do nothing and risk becoming hospitalised or possibly

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