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Misleading Use of Statistics to Pfizer’s Advantage

Misleading Use of Statistics to Pfizer’s Advantage

I am a nerd and I do statistics as a hobby! For the record, I am double-jabbed based on an assessment of my personal risk but I am absolutely pro-choice because the risk for many other people is more from the vaccine than the virus. The abuse of

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Holding Us to Ransom? Really?

Holding Us to Ransom? Really?

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In the past few weeks, I have begun to hear the phrase ‘holding us to ransom’ a lot more frequently. Specifically, it is the unvaccinated who are apparently holding the country to ransom. Is this really accurate? Let’s imagine a scenario where a terrorist

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An End of Showboating Action Called For

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The giant Merck pharmaceutical company has announced production of its covid “booster pill” which it has successfully tested. It’s abundantly clear that boosters are critical, our Pfizer vaccines losing strength within six months. While no doubt Covid Minister Hipkins will trot out our “head

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The Team of 90%

The Team of 90%

Joanna Pennyfeather So it is finally official. New Zealand is a two-class system, with some people granted some of their basic human rights and freedoms back, and others being actively and legally discriminated against. The unpersoning of the unvaccinated is now government policy. Medical apartheid is now a fact.

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NZ Herald Hit Job of the Day

NZ Herald Hit Job of the Day

The NZ Herald in the past attacked a popular NZ blog site for publishing articles that they described as “hit jobs”. They claimed that the articles were unethical because the author of the articles had allegedly been paid to write them. How then should we view this article by the

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Poll Reveals What New Zealanders Think of Three Waters

Nztu Media taxpayers.org.nz Newly-released data from the Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll reveals opposition to the Government’s Three Waters reform plans outweighs support by three to one. The poll of 1,000 New Zealanders reveals 56% oppose the reforms, with just 19% in support. 24% are unsure.

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It’s Life, Jim, but Not as We Knew It

It’s Life, Jim, but Not as We Knew It

KSK The rain continues in my neck of the woods.  So far, four days and nights of non-stop rain and thick fog that blankets the area, and I cannot see the boundary.  It could be a metaphor for the confusion and uncertainty that are obscuring the country.  The landscape

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Jab Mandates: Not So Much about Jabs as about ‘Papers’?

Jab Mandates: Not So Much about Jabs as about ‘Papers’?

Dear Editor Saturday’s Government Jab Mandate Order says you need to be jabbed…. but actually no you don’t. You DO need to be registered, however. “Papers” anyone? The wide-ranging exemption is indeed a whopping win and there will be thousands of educators and healthcare workers breathing considerably

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A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far

If you ever wondered, as I once did, how the Nazis took control of Germany so easily, now you have your answer. People just comply. They don’t think, they don’t question… they just comply. First it was lockdowns, to save the health service (while nurses produced Tiktok videos

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Dividing Our Nation

Dividing Our Nation

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In his iconic book Free to Choose, Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman provided an insight into human aspiration: “A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for

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