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If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by Lushington D. Brady that was first published  October 20th 2020. Election 2020: The View from Oz Elections Past From Across

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Korero from the Throne

Korero from the Throne

Information Satire Morena, ka pai; Aotearoa, this is your Kuini, and this is important korero, so please take notice. Last week our island nation was compared unfavourably with another island nation in our response to the great taniwha COVID-19. This is unacceptable, I am beyond reach of criticism due both

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Daily News Roundup – 29 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 29 October 2020

National Party Claire Trevett (Herald): The case for Judith Collins to make Deputy Shane Reti and put Simon Bridges in finance (paywalled) John Bishop (Stuff): National needs new values to rebuild Henry Cooke (Stuff): Gerry Brownlee’s deputy leadership in trouble ahead of confidence vote Zane Small (Newshub): National MPs

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It Seems That Jacinda Ardern Does Actually Lie

It Seems That Jacinda Ardern Does Actually Lie

Jacinda Ardern famously claimed she’d never told a lie (there’s a lie right there) and also believes that it is possible to be in politics and never lie. When the border leaks hit in August we were told by the Prime Minister and the Health Minister that they

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The Preventable Death of Melbourne

The Preventable Death of Melbourne

Daniel Andrews has broken his promise to the people of Victoria and broken the spirit of one of the world’s great cities. He’s also breaking the bank of the entire nation. I only lived in Melbourne for six months, but I worked in and regularly visited the city

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COVID Ushers in a Boom in Egg Freezing, Abortion & Mr Wrongs

Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control

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“Save Lives”, They Said

It was way back in April that The BFD reported on warnings that the panicked response to the Wuhan plague was going to cause more death and misery than lockdowns would ever prevent. Sadly, these are some of the few “expert predictions” about COVID-19 which have been proved right. Aside

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Daily News Roundup – 28 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 28 October 2020

Greens and coalition negotiations John Armstrong (1News): Don’t mistake Ardern’s talks with Green Party for kindness Richard Harman (Politik): Greens’ high stakes game carries a big risk Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour and the Greens: an inevitable embrace (paywalled) Phil Taylor (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern holds all the cards but

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GPs Support COVID Plan B

GPs Support COVID Plan B

covidplanb.co.nz A group of New Zealand health practitioners have joined a growing international movement that says COVID-19 is not a sufficient threat to warrant the elimination strategy and lockdowns. The founding signatories felt obliged by their professional ethics to express support by signing a statement of principles that

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How Deadly Is COVID-19?

How Deadly Is COVID-19?

Sebastian Rushworth M.D. Health and medical information grounded in science sebastianrushworth.com September 2020 was the least deadly month in Swedish history, in terms of the number of deaths per 100,000 population. Ever. And I don’t mean the least deadly September, I mean the least deadly month.

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Jacinda Can Forget about COVID Fearmongering Now

Jacinda Can Forget about COVID Fearmongering Now

Audrey Young tells me in the left-wing Weekend Herald headline, “Ardern looks ahead after digesting win and a whisky”. Well, she daren’t look back otherwise she’ll see what a dismal failure her first term was. All the key indicators in all the key areas were heading in the

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Daily News Roundup – 27 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 27 October 2020

Labour Party and new Labour Government Andrea Vance (Stuff): ‘Labour Connect’ the data analysis tool that boosted Jacinda Ardern’s campaign Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Time for Govt to take some risks (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on her big win and big plans (paywalled) Audrey Young:

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Call for Data on COVID-19 Health Impacts

Call for Data on COVID-19 Health Impacts

covidplanb.co.nz New Zealand has not released any analysis about the negative health impacts of the COVID-19 elimination and lockdown policy. This is highlighted by studies released in the UK this week which indicates that their lockdowns are responsible for thousands of deaths and new illnesses, principally as a

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Victorian Lockdown Blamed for Infant Deaths

Victorian Lockdown Blamed for Infant Deaths

It was way back in May when I described state responses to the Wuhan pandemic as “the Moloch Option”. The cult of lockdown and restriction that has gripped Western governments is effectively sacrificing the young to save a small minority of the very old and very, very unhealthy. I was

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It’s Not a Lockdown It Is a “Firebreak”

It’s Not a Lockdown It Is a “Firebreak”

Croeso I Cymru: 23rd October 2020 As from 6 pm tonight (23rd October), Wales goes into a 17-day “firebreak”. It is important to note that this is not a lockdown, but something totally different. How it differs no one has explained, just PR rephrasing at work to make it seem

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