COVID-19
Now What?
George The soft stuff is over. Close our borders, shut the country down, enforce a police state and shower borrowed money amongst us creating the falsehood of security. Now what? Labour believes the country will start its recovery as soon as the dust settles. The dust won’t be settled
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NZ’s Data as Reliable as China’s
According to the official figures, and those supplied to WHO, New Zealand has had a total of 1,122 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since data was collected. Of those cases, 19 have sadly succumbed to the disease. This leaves 1,103 still alive but who have tested positive and
Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 28 April 2020
Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee
New Legislation Needed
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The bold court actions by some Aucklanders against the Prime Minister and other government officials, seeking a writ of habeas corpus, were always doomed to failure. For the cold hard fact was the ill-considered lock-down was legal. Thus we were subject to the
An Orchestrated Litany of Lies
Kathleen Horne COVID-19 has given Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson and their government colleagues the opportunity to take lying, hypocrisy and scapegoating to a whole new level. Let’s examine the case for lying about cash support for businesses via a make-believe court case with a judge interrogating the
Our Country is in the Hands of a Few Bumbling Fools
Making decisions on the trot is never a good way to do anything. Ask any small business owner. They don’t just blindly bumble along adjusting what they do to fit whatever the flavour of the day might be. Even the smallest business venture does cash flow projections and measures
Ardern and Bloomfield Should Never Have Imposed Lockdown
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com On March 17th, eight days before New Zealand entered lockdown, Professor John Ioannidis, one of the world’s most cited medical researchers, published an article warning that the world was rushing into a series of panic-stricken responses to COVID-19 on the basis of
The BFD Video: What Exactly Did the Experts Say About the Coronavirus Outbreak?
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Inside the Politburo
Information Satire Some time having passed since my visit from the Kindness and Wellbeing Police in the very hard on the eyes shapes of officers Hagar and Rawsprat, your intrepid eyewitness was beginning to feel that it was high time that the Flyspy listening device was again pressed into service
First There Was Your Fake News, Now There’s Your Fake Suze
Imagine being a ‘news’ outlet pretending to stand on some sort of moral high-ground but deliberately misrepresenting the context and content of a press-pool briefing. Imagine the same outlet rushing to further misrepresent such statements by recording a little vid to post to a wider audience platform. Imagine
The Sun Is Still Shining, but I Fear That Storms Are on the Way
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments
Deborah Russell’s View of SMEs Reflects Government’s ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Stance
“I used some pretty bad words” is the sort of language I might have heard in my primary teaching days from a guilty child caught out for swearing. This is Labour’s Deborah Russell’s juvenile explanation during an interview on Newstalk ZB, discussing her thoughtless question on the ERC