Tobacco is our most deadly legal recreational substance, with alcohol coming second. So what does the government do about it? Tax it to high heaven, of course, so that it becomes a virtually prohibited substance. And what happens when you do that? You create a black market. A Newshub investigation
Information Opinion A couple of days ago the Independent Police Complaints Authority released a report that criticised Police for taking a large number of photographs “with no clear and lawful purpose”. There is also a claim of racial bias, as 53 per cent of those photographed were Maori. The response
Andreea S. Calude Sam Campbell University of Waikato As a linguist, Andreea S. Calude is fascinated by various aspects of language, including grammar and the organisation of spoken English, but also language evolution and language change (studying how words from one language get adopted and used in another –> borrowings
Remember when they sneered at Jordan Peterson for warning us about transgenderism and enforced speech? Now, an Irish teacher has been jailed for refusing to submit to “preferred pronoun” nonsense. Technically, he’s been jailed for contempt of court — but that’s only because he refused to be bullied out
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Informed Consent is especially topical at the moment with the inquest into the death of a young man from vaccine-induced myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle). What was known and when, about the ability of the Pfizer covid vaccine
Alexander Gillespie Claire Breen University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) and
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet. Is social media harmful to kids? Some people are still sceptical about this: a few experts, the American Civil Liberties Union and Big Tech itself, of course. Put a smart little device in the hands of teenagers,
Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to Covid-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown
It’s been a long legal slog for Zoe Buhler, but the Australian woman has finally won a free speech victory in court. Still, the two-year court grind proves that the process is ultimately the punishment. Buhler made headlines around the world in 2020, when she was arrested by three
familyfirst.org.nz When does surrogacy become a commercial venture? A recent article published in Newsroom says “The [Law Commission’s recent] report recommends amending the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act to allow payments to surrogates for their reasonable costs. It suggests these should include reasonable medical, travel and accommodation
The Great Reckoning for the gender whisperers is starting at last. Not only are parents pushing back against groomers in schools, but an increasing number of young people are ‘de-transitioning’ and calling in the lawyers. Britain’s Tavistock Clinic, which ran an industrial-scale operation of gaslighting confused kids into ‘transitioning’
Liberty Nation Staff libertynation.com The Department of Justice has filed a publicly available version of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant for Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce E Reinhart ordered the filing to be made public by noon Friday, August 26. The
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Information Opinion What follows is Dr Guy Hatchard’s analysis of the High Court ruling of Friday, 13 August 2022, where a judgement was released by the High Court in Wellington confirming the legality of the approval process for Covid-19 children’s vaccine (aged 5-11 years)
Anthony Willy, barrister and solicitor, has served as a judge on four courts: district, environment, tax, and valuation. He is a former lecturer in law at Canterbury University and presently an arbitrator, commercial mediator and Resource Management Act commissioner, and yesterday he shared his views on Three Waters – and particularly
righttolife.org.uk As Canada is set to expand its euthanasia laws to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia for exclusively mental health reasons from next year, experts are increasingly drawing attention to the “discriminatory impact” of Canada’s euthanasia legislation. Canada has one of the most permissive euthanasia laws in
A big, fat, nothinburger, with a heapin’ helpin’ of hyperbole: that’s the obvious reality of the Albanese government’s threadbare witch-hunt of Scott Morrison. The only thing that differentiates it from the Democrats’ “Russian Collusion” conspiracy is that at least it isn’t completely made up. The former PM
