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Craig Lord Campaign video 

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Vaccines Used to Be Trusted. What Went Wrong?
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Vaccines Used to Be Trusted. What Went Wrong?

Jayanta Bhattacharya Martin Kulldorff brownstone.org Jay Bhattacharya, Senior Scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli

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The Hidden Cost of “Public Interest Journalism”

Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and

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Simon Bridges Bows Out of Politics

Simon Bridges Bows Out of Politics

Simon Bridges is announcing he is retiring from politics and will leave Parliament in the coming weeks. Mr Bridges is currently the MP for Tauranga and National’s Finance spokesperson. “It’s been a privilege to be MP for Tauranga since 2008, a senior Minister and Leader of the Opposition.

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Justin Trudeau senses a slippage in democracy towards authoritarianism. “…Countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders – countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media turning people against the values and the principles of democracies that are so strong,” he said. skynews.com.au/world-news/global-

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COVID Testing Best Left to Private Enterprise

COVID Testing Best Left to Private Enterprise

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura As we get used to living with widespread Covid, microbiologiest Siouxsie Wiles is calling for a new way to track how much of the virus is in the community and what variants. She says in the UK they regularly test a representative sample of people,

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Oh, Dear, Someone Has a Short Memory

Oh, Dear, Someone Has a Short Memory

Matt King, political wannabe and ex National MP for Northland clearly has a short memory for things that happen up North. And as an ex Detective, his detection skills are somewhat lacking.  (Matt, there’s a thing called Internet search.) Matt has posted on Facebook: Nanaia Mahuta’s decision to

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A Brazen Plan For Maori

A Brazen Plan For Maori

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura I was shocked by the Ngai Tahu representative Liz Brown’s evidence to the Maori Affairs Select Committee hearing on the Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill, last week. During her evidence, she stated that Ngai Tahu’s ultimate goal was co-governance (ECAN)

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Maintaining Control

Maintaining Control

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The Only Game in Town
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The Only Game in Town

A close friend of mine was most unwell last week.  “Ah ha,” she thought, “I’ve got Covid.” Several days of negative RATs later she was still sure she had Covid, and that the results were incorrect. She didn’t trust the RATs. She did everything she has been told

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Pssst … Don’t Mention the Iwi

Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Karl du Fresne is a freelance journalist and blogger living in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. He grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still considers it his turangawaewae, although He can walk the length of Ruataniwha St these days and

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Government Fuel Tax Cut Winds Clock Back Just One Week

Government Fuel Tax Cut Winds Clock Back Just One Week

Under increasing pressure from out of control cost of living increases, the tyrant, Jacinda Ardern, acted last night to cut fuel taxes and road user charges by 25c a litre, resetting the price consumers now face for fuel by just a week. Kiwi motorists will get some relief from soaring

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Chan-Green: “This time last week you were saying there is no cost of living crisis. Since then one of your own ministers, Carmel Sepuloni, has said there is a crisis for families, was she wrong?” Ardern: “No she wasn’t…I totally agree with Minister Sepuloni” pic.twitter.com/

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View from the Palace on Peasants

View from the Palace on Peasants

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