From the Hitler Youth to the Pavel Morozov cult in the Soviet Union, to LGBTQ activism, authoritarian regimes have always had an unholy fascination with getting their ideological hooks into children’s minds. In Orwell’s 1984, “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible.” The state’s “child heroes” are nasty
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As often happens with disasters, natural and man-made, the Chinese virus pandemic is a playground for every prognosticator, soothsayer and two-bit pundit. Unsurprisingly, the predicted long-term effects of the pandemic always seem to be remarkably in tune with the pundit’s prejudices. The Green-Left are eagerly
Media release Ministry of Health 18 April 2020 Today New Zealand’s total number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 13, made up of 8 new confirmed cases and 5 new probable cases. The new combined total of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand is 1422. There are
Leo Goldstein writes at WattsUpWithThat Metrics “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” is applicable here. To control COVID-19, we need to measure the percentage of infected, immune, and naïve individuals in each location and age group. The most popular metrics – the number of tested
Take your pick, Duncan Garner wears both descriptions particularly well and a few less flattering ones too. Once upon a time, I enjoyed the AM show, but that was before their anti-Trump rhetoric infected the minds of people I once considered more discerning of the facts. Garner and his
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For anyone who was expecting to live through some sort of global apocalypse, somewhere between The Seventh Seal and The Walking Dead, the Xi plague must surely be turning out to be a bit of a fizzer in most respects. Although in keeping with Orwell’s note on “negative nationalism”
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com We’ve been sold a bill of goods by global agencies and national and state governments, aided by a media ever salivating for sensation. We’ve been compliant little citizens, setting aside our cultural scepticism of authority and replacing our freedom and ability to think for
In the year 1910, a law-abiding New Zealand citizen would hardly have been aware of the operation of the State. He would be aware of policemen walking the beat. He would probably use the Post Office. If a city dweller, he would ride on municipal trams. But that would
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Remote health monitoring of COVID-19 patients A team from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has developed a new device that’s able to monitor COVID-19 remotely. The device has the potential to allow remote monitoring, making taking care of infectious patients safer for medical staff.
Davo42 Has COVID-19 now guaranteed Labour an election win? With New Zealand entering a new phase of poverty thanks to “The COVID” as I like to call it and the power of incumbency we must now accept that the next government as a Labour/Greens coalition without the need
Giacomino Nicolazzo is an Italian-American writer who, it seems fairly obvious, is not a fan of left-wing politics. As such, his characterisation of most left-wing politicians as “communists” might be taken with a grain of salt. But his account of the concatenation of dodgy policy decisions which
