NZ Politics
Time to STOP This Government’s Vaccine Stupidity
It’s time for the emergency legislation to be thrown out. Time for the government to back off. Time to get on with life as we knew it. Time to abandon the draconian attitude to the ill-prepared and ill tested vaccines and let people exercise their freedom to choose.
Pfizer Side-Effects
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In recent weeks it seems that a few people have begun to talk about adverse reactions to the Pfizer covid vaccine. A US court has ordered Pfizer to release a damning document that highlights over 100 different adverse reactions to the vaccine from around the
The King of Spending Other People’s Money
Grant Robertson has announced that the 2022 budget, due in May next year, will include an additional $6 billion in new operational spending, mainly aimed at funding the government’s proposed health sector changes and also at tackling climate change. More money that we don’t have. More quantitative easing.
Feeling Quanked by Snollygosters
And here we go again. Lockdowns are again being threatened by the Deputy Prime Minister. One case of Omicron crosses their leaky border and all bets were off for any thoughts of so-called freedom. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson, in an interview recorded on Friday and aired on Saturday
The Silence of Our ‘Friends’
Over nine days ago I exposed the existence of a Police spy unit ominously called the ‘Scanning and Targeting Team’. We found out about this team as a result of an Official Information Act request regarding the labelling, by the Police, of The BFD as a misinformation site. What the
Lessons We Must Learn
Guy Hatchard Information Opinion Guy Hatchard PhD is a former senior manager at Genetic ID. His research work has looked at the influence of human factors on social and economic indicators. This article presents the association between weekly vaccination totals and all cause mortality for the 60+ age cohort. This
All I Want for Christmas
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com In the lead-up to the introduction of the odious Traffic Lights System by the Jacinda Junta, New Zealand’s plunge into full-blown totalitarianism—supported by every party in Parliament—proceeded at a bewildering pace. Comrade Ardern blithely ordered Kiwis not to talk to their
Dawn Freshwater Kicks for Touch
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom. Reading the statement last week by Dawn Freshwater announcing a symposium to be held next year to debate the
Prior’s Warning
Mike Grimshaw University of Canterbury Mike Grimshaw is a sociologist, social theorist and thinker in the continental tradition (especially weak thought); a radical theologian who taught religious studies; a historian of ideas; in short an intellectual mongrel by design and practice. Vaccines, their mandates and certificates have ignited heated debate
The Social Cost of Lockdowns
Crimes across the country are going uninvestigated due to the number of police officers deployed to Covid MIQ facilities and patrolling the Auckland border. Elective surgeries have been cancelled. Children’s education disrupted. Mental health problems have worsened. Has anyone produced a calculation of the social cost from fighting Covid
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St Johns Staffing Stuff Up
Adverse outcomes from the Ardern Government’s vaccine mandate were quite predictable to anyone paying attention, and of course, concerns about critical services being interrupted were swept aside by the MSM. Their devotion to paying homage to their piper takes precedence over the sort of thing many of us regard
If COVID Doesn’t Kill You the MOH Might
#DefendNZ www.defendnz.co.nz An Official Information Act reply to #DefendNZ, from the Ministry of Health, which says that patients with COVID-19 could be eligible for euthanasia, has left National MP Simon O’Connor disappointed but not surprised. In November #DefendNZ wrote to the New Zealand Ministry of