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From 9/11 to COVID-19: Nineteen Years of Permanent “Emergency”

From 9/11 to COVID-19: Nineteen Years of Permanent “Emergency”

Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State

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The Big Fat COVID Lie

The Big Fat COVID Lie

Unemployment figures are skyrocketing. “More than 60 per cent more people are now receiving Jobseeker Support work-ready benefits than the same time a year ago – and the number of people aged under 24 on the benefit has leapt 80 per cent.” Christie wrote this week about unemployment being the

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Full-on Masked Hysteria

Full-on Masked Hysteria

Mark Williams I got my title from a 90’s dance music album by a group called Altern-8. Famous for their mask-wearing and hazmat suits at raves I was reminded of them by the mask hysteria we are now currently experiencing. How did we go from no facemasks

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Rules Are For Thee, Not For Me

Rules Are For Thee, Not For Me

The Prime Minister locked down Auckland for a second time and refuses to reduce Auckland’s default setting of Level 2.5. Apparently we have a tricky virus that could flare up again. She also told all Aucklanders that if we moved about the country then we should behave as

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Yet Another Hit for Businesses

Yet Another Hit for Businesses

Eliora New Zealand is experiencing a change in the type of crime being committed. According to the NZ Police, the number of home burglaries is down but shoplifting is up. On top of an economic hit, Kiwi businesses face an increased level of theft. Businesses in New Zealand have been

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Sweden

Sweden

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Back in early March, I wrote on this site that intuition told me when it’s all done and dusted I suspect Sweden will prove to have got it right with what was then described as the herd approach to the coronavirus. Now increasingly the

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Andrews Is a “Grubby, Rotten” Dictator

Andrews Is a “Grubby, Rotten” Dictator

David “Jim” Penman – the “Jim” of Jim’s Mowing – is nobody’s fool. An historian who graduated with Honours from La Trobe university, Penman started mowing lawns to get by while completing his PhD. Nearly 40 years later, his Jim’s Group is an international success story. Penman describes his

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Fruit Picking Is Just So Relaxing, Darling

Fruit Picking Is Just So Relaxing, Darling

Look, we rural folk know that public servants and journalists haven’t the faintest clue what life is really like outside the latte belt. But do they have to make it so obvious? When former PM Julia Gillard went on a “fact-finding” tour to darkest Rooty Hill, she packed

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New Zealand 2020 Health Statistics

New Zealand 2020 Health Statistics

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Total Road Deaths to Date: 218 Total Coronavirus Deaths to Date: 25 NOTE: Thanks to the lockdown the road toll is down on past recent years. Consistency and common sense (and doubtless Ashley Bloomfield) says we should forthwith ban all motor vehicles. The government should

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

The BFD. Things that make me go Hmm. Jacinda Ardern pictured visiting Massey in Palmerston North. Credit: David Unwin/ Stuff Imagine the outrage if National leader Judith Collins  did something similar. Jacinda Ardern should refer to her own guidance document from the Covid-19 website for Level 2. Personal movement

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We Are Officially in Recession

We Are Officially in Recession

PREFU and the June quarter GDP numbers have been announced this week. Yes, we all knew the numbers were going to be bad. But how bad? Well, the answer is very bad, yet the media, on both occasions, has played it down, saying (quoting the politicians) that things are ‘not

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A “Very, Very Deadly” Virus

A “Very, Very Deadly” Virus

Editorial Note: The death toll is now 25 Our Coalition Government hasn’t got a lot to choose from when it comes to appointing some of them to Ministerial positions. The situation has been made even worse by some of the original selections having to be fired for sundry reasons.

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