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Diagnosing the Disease

Chris Sellars Just because it sounds ugly and depressing, doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Once only the domain of cowards and fools the obviously false ‘choose your own truth’ paradigm has gone mainstream and is now even sanctioned in Acts and Statutes. My goal though is at odds

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‘El Woko Loco’ Story Gets Worse

‘El Woko Loco’ Story Gets Worse

The entitlement attitude of “El Woko Loco” aka Ricardo Menendez-March gets worse as more details come out. I suspect there is loads more to come on this rather stinky story: Green MP Ricardo Menendez-March’s emergency application for an MIQ room was one of “only a couple” that were escalated

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How Does All of This End?

How Does All of This End?

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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Australians Growing Warier of COVID Jab

Australians Growing Warier of COVID Jab

As the visceral crowd reaction at the Australian Open final showed, Australians are less than enthusiastic about the COVID-19 vaccine. This is significant because Australia is normally a high vaccine-uptake country – although that perhaps depends on the perceived threat. Vaccination rates for tuberculosis, measles, etc. are over 90%, but only

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President Biden Says the Experimental Coronavirus Vaccines Are Safe

Adam Dick ronpaulinstitute.org Via a Monday Twitter post, President Joe Biden made an unqualified assertion that the experimental coronavirus vaccines, which are not even vaccines under the normal meaning of vaccines, the United States government is encouraging Americans to take are “safe” for everyone. However, taking a look through

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It’s Not an Internment Camp, Just Forcible Government Detention

It’s Not an Internment Camp, Just Forcible Government Detention

It was only a few months back that PM Justin Trudeau sternly warned Canadians not to believe “harmful misinformation” and “conspiracy theories” that his government was preparing COVID-19 internment centres. Just pay no attention to those… COVID-19 internment centres. Trudeau bloviated that such “harmful misinformation” would “undermine people’s confidence

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Welcome to the Real Gulag Archipelago

Welcome to the Real Gulag Archipelago

Dhuni Information Satire (Trigger warning: this is satire) So much has happened in the last few weeks. First there is the renewed game of Sindy Says. #EveryoneLovesPlaygroundGames #There’sOnlyOneSindy #ThereIsNoOptingOut #TeamOfFiveMillion At 9am Queen-Sindy said the parade must go on. #QueenSongsAreTheBest #Don’tStopMeNow #OpticsAreQueen At 8 pm Kind-Sindy said, now

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Dear Ashley Bloomfield and PM Jacinda Ardern

Dear Ashley Bloomfield and PM Jacinda Ardern

Dear Ashley Bloomfield and PM Jacinda Ardern, Whenever we, as the New Zealand public, receive information from the Beehive or the Ministry of Health or from scholars, it is always touted that our authorities or esteemed scholars are following the science to keep us safe, and obviously we would like

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‘El Woko Loco’ Tried Twice to Jump the Queue in MIQ

‘El Woko Loco’ Tried Twice to Jump the Queue in MIQ

There seems to be no end to the privilege claimed by “El Woko Loco” in order to secure his queue-jumping spot in MIQ after his annual pilgrimage to “Playami” to pick up his boyfriend: Green MP Ricardo Menendez March tried not once, but twice, to get an emergency spot in

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The Florida versus California Showdown

The Florida versus California Showdown

Amelia Janaskie aier.org Amelia Janaskie is a Research Associate at the American Institute for Economic Research.She graduated from the College of Charleston Honors College in May 2020 with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in English.During her time in college, she was a member of

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No Anzac Day in Dandrewstan, but Music Festival Goes Ahead

No Anzac Day in Dandrewstan, but Music Festival Goes Ahead

It’s often said of the left that if they didn’t have double-standards, they wouldn’t have any. Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is easily the furthest-left state leader in Australia. Naturally, he’s got double-standards in spades. This is, after all, the premier who did nothing when thousands of

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What Is the End Game for New Zealand with COVID-19?

What Is the End Game for New Zealand with COVID-19?

Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz A New Zealand household case of the UK variant triggered another short lockdown in New Zealand. This will have prompted many of us to wonder “when will covid end?” The answer requires considering that we won’t eliminate the virus, and nor do we

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is “torn” over when she will get the COVID-19 vaccine as she wants to protect border workers first – but also wants to send a message the vaccine is safe. Ardern told The AM Show on Monday her decision to wait was conflicted. […] In her

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Crowd Reaction Hints at Trouble for Vaccine Rollout

Crowd Reaction Hints at Trouble for Vaccine Rollout

The diminished crowd at this year’s Australian Open final in Melbourne may not be exactly representative of public opinion in Victoria, but the crowd reaction at the trophy presentation might spell trouble for both the Federal and Victorian governments. For the Victorian government, it might be seen as a

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