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Government Shamed into Action

Government Shamed into Action

ACT Party “Opposition pressure to improve the timeliness of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries is working,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Yesterday’s revelation from COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins that the Government is desperately trying to get its hands on vaccines ahead of schedule to inoculate at-risk border

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Meltdown

Eliora We can almost hear the two-year-old screaming as it hits the pavement. I know Kiwis who are currently living in the UK. They are generally happy New Zealanders. Last year they carried on going to work, living their lives as best they could in a COVID-19

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Victoria One Step Closer Back to the Abyss

Victoria One Step Closer Back to the Abyss

As The BFD reported recently, the Victorian government is teetering on the edge of making exactly the same mistakes which resulted in the Wuhan plague outbreak last year. The outbreak which resulted in the government imposing the first military curfew in Melbourne’s history, and plainclothes goons handcuffing a pregnant

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Has the Sainted Ashley Blundered?

Has the Sainted Ashley Blundered?

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand is trailing almost the entire world in Covid vaccinations. The government justifies this on two grounds. First; unlike most other countries we’re not currently facing an infection crisis, thanks to our geographic isolation and small dispersed population. Second; we can afford the

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Will Golriz Accuse Lebanon of “Medical Apartheid”?

Will Golriz Accuse Lebanon of “Medical Apartheid”?

NZ Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has been accused of “shar[ing] the modern-day blood libel” and peddling “a vicious lie designed to smear the Jewish state” when she accused Israel of deliberately excluding Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. Ghahraman shared on Instagram the claim that Israel

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Spare a Thought for Climate Scientists

Spare a Thought for Climate Scientists

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Spare a thought for climate scientists: no longer the go-to experts for scary headlines. The epidemiologists have taken over. 2020 started well. The usual apocalyptic summer headlines. Then bang: they were gone. For thirty years climate scientists have led public debate and focused political minds.

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What Are We Being Softened up for?

What Are We Being Softened up for?

Make no mistake, Kiwis are being softened up for another lockdown. As the rest of the world suffers resurgence of the CCP Virus, including new strains of the virus, here in New Zealand we are now so far behind the rest of the world in dealing with the Chinese plague

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In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, They Rejected Lockdowns

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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What’s up with the Great Reset?

What’s up with the Great Reset?

Stacey Rudin aier.org Stacey Rudin is a writer, activist, community leader, volunteer, and former litigator active in the grassroots movement to ensure future pandemics are managed in accordance with established public health guidelines. An avid tennis player and reader, Stacey lives in Short Hills, New Jersey. At any anti-

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Western Australia Has Become an Elected Dictatorship

Western Australia Has Become an Elected Dictatorship

I’ve already written at some length about how the Australian state of Victoria descended into a medically-induced tyranny. Using the ridiculously-over-hyped excuse of what, on all available evidence, is very, very far from the deadliest pandemic in modern history, Victorians meekly, even gratefully, submitted to an

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Collins’ Comments January 2021

Collins’ Comments January 2021

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz What happened to hard and early? Why has it taken so long to bring in pre-departure COVID-19 testing for travellers from countries with high rates of COVID-19 infection like the UK and the USA? Now there is the threat of

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Michael Baker’s Mysterious Data

Michael Baker’s Mysterious Data

Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The architect of New Zealand’s elimination strategy for COVID-19, Michael Baker, criticized former “Bachelor” star Naz Khanjani for implying her mild experience of COVID-19 was the typical experience. He said her comments were “dangerous” misinformation, and a “fallacy”. Yet a reality

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Spoonfuls of Sugar!

Spoonfuls of Sugar!

Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com On the weekend we heard the sad news of a perfectly healthy Florida doctor, Dr. Gregory Michael becoming sick and dying within 15 days of receiving the Pfizer’s Covid- 19 vaccination, with his wife confirming his healthy status prior to this event.  Heidi

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