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A Brilliant Election Campaign

A Brilliant Election Campaign

You have to admit it. Jacinda is a master. She is streets ahead of everyone else in this election campaign. She campaigns just about every day, appearing on our screens at 1 pm, and if she can’t make it, usually due to her 3-day weekends, then one of her

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Daily News Roundup – 16 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 16 September 2020

Election Henry Cooke (Stuff): Judith Collins and David Seymour battle for the right wing Richard Harman (Politik): How Collins and Seymour are divided Andrew MacFarlane (1News): Vote Compass: Most New Zealanders support higher taxes for the wealthy Claire Trevett (Herald): Are National and Labour both guilty of ‘misinformation’? (paywalled) The

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Government Failure at the Border Confirmed

Government Failure at the Border Confirmed

Ashley Bloomfield has finally confirmed what we all suspected, that the latest outbreak, the one that caused the lockdowns we are still suffering under, came as a result of Government failure at the border. https://embed.trint.com/C7K92qd5Qvuq7etoZ1kjCQ/player.js He told Mike Hosking AND the AM Show the

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Escaped Chinese Scientist: Virus Came From Lab

Escaped Chinese Scientist: Virus Came From Lab

Some months ago, The BFD reported on Dr Li-Meng Yan, the Chinese virologist who escaped to the West to try and expose the truth of the Wuhan pandemic. In July, Dr Yan confirmed what everyone already knew: the Chinese government had lied about the origin of SARs-CoV-2 in Wuhan and

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In a War on Restaurants, Media Tout the Lockdown Narrative

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 eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor

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The Government’s Approach to Wuflu

The Government’s Approach to Wuflu

I have been pondering awhile on the Government’s approach to Wuflu, and have concluded that it really boils down to 2 factors; ideology and planning. In the early days of the outbreak, no one really knew what was going on and how bad the virus was (or wasn’t)

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Ardern Is a Disgrace

Ardern Is a Disgrace

Jacinda Ardern is a disgrace. She is a disgrace for managing, in just three years, to exacerbate all the problems the country was facing and starting to solve. She has failed in all the areas that she says her party stands for. She has completely failed her voter base. All

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Daily News Roundup – 15 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 15 September 2020

Alert level decision Luke Malpass (Stuff): Big questions linger after Covid-19 alert level decision Derek Cheng (Herald): Travel spike could thwart Government’s level 1 plans – Covid modeller Science Media Centre: Alert Level status quo stays a little longer – Expert Reaction Crystal Wu (Stuff): Public health, economic experts react to

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Our faces of the day today are three against one as Judith Collins, David Seymour and Winston Peters have all come out against Jacinda Ardern’s decision to keep the South Island in a level 2 lockdown. National leader Judith Collins says South Islanders have had enough and slammed the

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It’s Far Too Late to Think Lockdowns Can Make COVID-19 Go Away

It’s Far Too Late to Think Lockdowns Can Make COVID-19 Go Away

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 in

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Govt Making It up as It Goes on Border Testing

Govt Making It up as It Goes on Border Testing

Press Release: ACT Party “The Government took 192 days to require testing of border-facing staff and almost immediately a healthcare worker at Jet Park has tested positive for Covid-19,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The only reason we haven’t seen more cases appearing at the border is because it

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Our Queen of Corona

Our Queen of Corona

With sincere apologies to Paul Simon, our very own “Queen of Corona”, through the medium of Chris Hipkins, has warned the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church congregation that the teachings from their Christian bible, delivered from the church pulpit, is misleading and that the only source of truth is delivered from

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Hipkins Is Not Their Source of Truth

Hipkins Is Not Their Source of Truth

Eliora Senior Pastor Glen Taka, of the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship, made me smile last week. Yes, he/they broke the rules, but he has made it clear that he and his group are not going to be part of the “team of 5 million” who are enamoured of every

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NZ’s COVID Policy Is Wrongfully and Unnecessarily Criminalising Ordinary, Innocent NZ Citizens

NZ’s COVID Policy Is Wrongfully and Unnecessarily Criminalising Ordinary, Innocent NZ Citizens

Lizbet Hush * Citizens told to inform on each other. * COVID infringements. * Church leaders censured over a COVID cluster. * Hunger strikes * Escape attempts * Mask fines * Police involvement for contract tracing delinquents * Thousands of returnees isolated in quarantine facilities; those testing positive forced with non-positive family members into mandatory quarantine facilities surrounded

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