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Move over Bill Cosby. Here Come the COVID Criminals

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it,

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A Lockdown Too Far?

A Lockdown Too Far?

How much longer will Victorians continue to #StandWithDan? In what can only be regarded as a mass-outbreak of Stockholm Syndrome, Victorians responded to being placed under virtual house-arrest, due entirely to the astonishing ineptitude of the Andrews government, by loudly cheering for the corrupt clowns who locked them

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PM’s Performance Spin over Substance

PM’s Performance Spin over Substance

ACT Party “The Prime Minister’s post-Cabinet press conference yesterday was a nauseating stream of self-congratulation when what she should have been doing was apologising,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Make no mistake, our biggest city is in a three-day lockdown because someone who worked in close

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Why We Need Honest Conversations

Why We Need Honest Conversations

ACT Party The Politics of COVID has shown how desperately New Zealand needs honest conversations. The Prime Minister failed, requiring a third of the country to go under house arrest, and is reported as a hero. Here’s some real chutzpah: She triumphally announces that enough vaccine for 30,000

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Are COVID Vaccines…Vaccines?

Marc Grey Are COVID Vaccines…Vaccines? In a previous article, the 4 COVID vaccines coming to New Zealand were discussed in some detail. In this one, we examine some common questions that people have about these vaccines. Firstly, because most of them are made via novel technology (in particular the

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‘New Zealand Is Not North Korea’

‘New Zealand Is Not North Korea’

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The following was brought to my attention and is very hard to argue with: Extracted from the Feb 13 Economist’s leading article, How well will vaccines work? : For all these reasons, governments need to start planning for covid-19 as an endemic disease. Today

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Political Theatre at Its Best

Political Theatre at Its Best

Seven o’clock on a Sunday night and there she was, Jacinda, looking suitably frowny faced and dressed in black. Always an ominous sign. She had had to forego one of the highlights of her year – the Big Gay Out. Three people, all from the same family, had been found

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says we are going hard and early, but I say “big gay out” to that. They knew of these cases on Sunday morning, so why didn’t Ardern do the unpopular thing and cancel Auckland’s Big Gay Out carnival on Sunday afternoon? Thousands and thousands

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New COVID Guidelines: ‘Stay Away from Your Loved Ones’

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it,

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Govt Must Learn from Latest Outbreak

Govt Must Learn from Latest Outbreak

ACT Party “We must hope that the Government’s testing and tracing can isolate this outbreak before a damaging extended lockdown harms livelihoods,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT’s primary concern is for all those businesses, workers and households who now face the uncertainty of a further lockdown, and

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Lockdown Another Blow to Kiwis’ Hard Work

Lockdown Another Blow to Kiwis’ Hard Work

National Party Judith Collins The latest lockdown will be a devastating blow to New Zealanders who have sacrificed so much to keep this country COVID-free, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “I feel for the people who have already sacrificed their livelihoods, their jobs and their businesses to

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China Virus Cases Drop Ahead of Mass Immunisation

The Wuhan plague sure is a tricky little virus. It seems particularly determined to show up the arrogant bullshit of “experts” and public health bureaucrats. An endless parade of lab-coated media tarts posturing as our sole sources of truth have been continually confounded by the Chinese virus. Whether it’

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