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People Are Going to Die Before Their Time

People Are Going to Die Before Their Time

Editorial Note: At the time of writing and when this post was scheduled the service had not been cancelled. It is possible that by the time this publishes things may have changed. The Black Caps are playing their One Day series against Australia behind closed doors. The series will go

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Coronavirus Exposes Weakness of Chinese Authoritarianism

Coronavirus Exposes Weakness of Chinese Authoritarianism

Before he noticed that China was staging a Silent Invasion of Australia, academic Clive Hamilton was claiming that the communist nation might well be the model state to tackle climate change. While democracies are hamstrung, supposedly, by the stupid ‘denying’ masses, authoritarian states like China can just snap their fingers

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Does the PM Need Another Working Group to Protect us from Coronavirus?

Does the PM Need Another Working Group to Protect us from Coronavirus?

The PM’s laissez-faire attitude to Coronavirus will have serious repercussions for us. Her opinion, that when Coronavirus shows “sustained community transmission” she will do something about it, will of course be much too late for containment. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there is no evidence of sustained community

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Best Intentions Cannot Control Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction

Best Intentions Cannot Control Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction

Operation Paperclip was the American mission to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Europe after WWII and take 88 brilliant Third Reich scientific minds to America to drive technological advancement in rocketry, space search and biological weaponry. Writer Annie Jacobsen wrote about that mission, and a dozen or so of

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How One Virus Brings Out the Worst in People

How One Virus Brings Out the Worst in People

Mark Longley, digital manager at Newshub, gives a well thought out opinion on the public’s reaction to the coronavirus OPINION: It doesn’t take much for the thin veneer of decency to slip for many people. Given the whiff of a potential threat to mankind and humanity goes flying

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Coronavirus Becomes Latest Excuse For Mass Hysteria

Coronavirus Becomes Latest Excuse For Mass Hysteria

Dennis Prager PA Pundits International Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is a nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once.

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Coronavirus Might Do What No One Else Can

Coronavirus Might Do What No One Else Can

Well, here we are, with 3 confirmed cases of the virus in New Zealand. It seems that the answer to the question as to what 3 things you would take with you on a desert island is: toilet paper, bottled water and hand sanitiser. Dettol now seems to be joining

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Open Letter to the Prime Minister

Open Letter to the Prime Minister

George Open letter to the Prime Minister: Last night I witnessed you commenting on New Zealand’s first known case of the Covid-19 virus. You were at pains to promote the success of this intervention as an example of your Government’s readiness and competence to handle such an

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