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Dr Shane Reti – ‘Gagging’ of DHB Members Should Not Be Tolerated
Any moves to muzzle elected District Health Board members from commenting honestly on the Government’s health system restructure should not be allowed to happen, National’s Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “I’m very concerned to hear some elected DHB members feel the new code
Pakistan’s Draconian Blasphemy Laws Claim Two More Victims
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has excellent facilities and
Gagging Elected DHB Members from Politics a Step Too Far
Free Speech Coalition The Free Speech Coalition is calling on the Public Service Commissioner Peter Hughes to revoke new rules which came into effect on Monday which apply rules of political neutrality onto DHB members – including those elected by the public. “Requiring politicians to act in a ‘politically impartial manner’
ACT ‘Disheartened’ by PM’s Misleading Statement
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Prime Minister yesterday told her weekly press conference she was “disheartened” the ACT Party doesn’t want to engage with the Government over its proposed Hate Speech Laws, despite ACT writing to the Justice Minister and agreeing for the caucus to meet with
YouTube Censors Panel of Medical Experts over COVID-19 “Misinformation”
Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and
How Fox Stands up to the Woke Cancel Mob of Bullies Targeting Tucker
Jeffrey Lord newsbusters.org Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania
How Big Tech’s Ministry of Truth Operates
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Jesus is King Last week two incredible stories broke from real journalists who report uncomfortable truths that are of great importance to The People. The only problem is tens of millions of people won’t have any clue about these important stories, including many of
Hate Speech Sentence Longer Than Male Assaults Female
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government’s proposed Hate Speech Laws mean someone could spend longer in jail for having an unpopular opinion than assaulting a child, male assaults female, participating in a riot and common assault,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “A cabinet paper released last week
The Jacinda Government’s Plan to Criminalise People’s Opinions Revealed
Geoffrey Churchman Waikanae watcher waikanaewatch.org On Friday the Newsroom website on this page said it had obtained the Cabinet Paper put forward by Justice Minister Chris Faafoi showing what the Government has in store to “protect” us from so-called ‘hate speech’ and gives some of the intentions. It shifts
The NZ Herald Conspiracy Theory about Conspiracy Theories
Strap yourselves in folks and don’t adjust your tin foil hats. David Fisher over at the NZ Herald has let his imagination run wild. According to Fisher (gasp), there is a major security threat in New Zealand. The danger is not Covid-19 or vaccinations to prevent Covid-19. No, the
Moscow on the Potomac
So… just who won the Cold War? When the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down, cold warrior Ronald Reagan would have been justified in thinking that he had successfully stared down the Evil Empire. 30 years later, it’s not so clear. One thing is certain: Even
Proposed ‘Hate Speech’ Laws Have My Full Support
Banning “hate” against religion is a return to our recently vaporised blasphemy laws, but with more teeth. While many liberals, libertarians, and even some conservatives cheered on Andrew Little’s repeal of our old (unused) blasphemy laws in 2019, I urged caution. Nature abhors a vacuum. A society must have