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COVID-19: The Moloch Option

COVID-19: The Moloch Option

It was an apparently widespread practice in the ancient Mediterranean basin to sacrifice children in order to placate the wrath of the gods. In Carthage, such sacrifices were made to Cronus (echoed in the Greek myth of Saturn devouring his sons). More famously, the Canaanites sacrificed their children to Moloch.

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Reason Number Two: We Have Been Lied to Before

Reason Number Two: We Have Been Lied to Before

saynopetodope.org.nz Tobacco companies lied to New Zealanders and the world for more than a century about the dangers of smoking. They based their market on addiction. They deliberately targeted kids. They even had doctors promote cigarettes as medicine. And today we are paying the price. The conversation is

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You Can Shove Your Kindness Where the Sun Don’t Shine

You Can Shove Your Kindness Where the Sun Don’t Shine

A newspaper reported “Oliver Christiansen’s dad lay dying and asking: “Where is my boy? Where is my boy?” Oliver Christiansen was prevented access to his dying dad by the Ministry of Health. The Director General fronted on the AM show Tuesday morning to apologize for getting it totally wrong

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Lockdown Will Cause Thousands of Additional Deaths in NZ

Lockdown Will Cause Thousands of Additional Deaths in NZ

Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com When the government compelled New Zealand into lockdown on March 24th most New Zealanders, desperate for any kind of decisive action, were relieved. Whether you believe the government’s decision to lock down the country was justified (I argue here and here it was not)

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COVID-19 Update: 4 May 2020

COVID-19 Update: 4 May 2020

We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11

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COVID-19 Update: 1 May 2020

COVID-19 Update: 1 May 2020

We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Captain Tom Moore has been promoted to Honorary Colonel by the Queen to mark his 100th birthday after the World War II veteran captured the hearts of the nation by raising £29 million for the NHS by doing laps of his garden.

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COVID-19 Update: 30 April 2020

COVID-19 Update: 30 April 2020

We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11

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Xi Jinping

Six Questions for Xi Jinping

Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com Nearly three weeks ago, historian Niall Ferguson posted six questions that Chinese political leader Xi Jinping needs to answer about this coronavirus — not in any expectation of them being answered, but instead to highlight how far China still seems to be from enjoying the free

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Criticism of the Lockdown

Criticism of the Lockdown

Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com Since I wrote Corona fevers and the madness of models, criticising the lockdown in New Zealand, there have been many comments and some objections to the article. Some of these have been discussed in other forums but here I will try to respond to a

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COVID-19 Update: 29 April 2020

COVID-19 Update: 29 April 2020

We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11

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Unjust Laws Should be Disobeyed. Stupid Ones Too

Unjust Laws Should be Disobeyed. Stupid Ones Too

On the 16th of April, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr sat in a prison cell in Birmingham City jail in Alabama. He had been incarcerated for partaking in non-violent protest after ignoring Circuit Judge W. A. Jenkins Jr’s edict from on high, banning “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing,

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Facts are Slowly Starting to Emerge

Facts are Slowly Starting to Emerge

This abbreviated timeline was published by ABC News on 24 April 2020, 07:12. * Dec. 31, 2019: WHO says mysterious pneumonia sickening dozens in China * Jan. 11, 2020: China reports 1st novel coronavirus death * Jan. 21, 2020: 1st confirmed case in the United States * Jan. 23, 2020: China imposes strict

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The Dismantling of Democracy

The Dismantling of Democracy

George A disturbing repercussion of this virus has been the dismantling of democracy. The current Government’s historical performance has been wiped clean. Its previous two and a half years of mismanagement have vanished without trace. All the relevant indicators that measure the Government’s performance through its term of

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COVID-19 Update: 28 April 2020

COVID-19 Update: 28 April 2020

We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11

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