Last week, Hamilton hosted the national economic forum at the University of Waikato. Former governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, who now chairs the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, made a couple of interesting points. The first was that almost none of the 150 “Shovel Ready” projects totalling $2.6
Dear Editor We are being brainwashed. No other discussion around Covid seems to be allowed, other than the current Government message of ‘Let’s suppress Covid 19’, without criticism. There seems to be no consideration of the results that have been achieved overseas where cities/states/countries have taken another
The government’s propaganda machine this weekend discussed the problem of social media platforms hamstringing government propaganda, or more specifically how to inject government messaging about the COVID-19 vaccine into social media reports of community resistance generally and from Brian and Hannah Tamaki specifically who say they won’t
Covid: Govt comms, blame, compliance Graham Adams (Democracy Project): Ardern’s halo slips, rhetoric wears thin Luke Malpass (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s Covid comms strategy is starting to look a bit tired Michael Morrah (Newshub): Epidemiologist Michael Baker says recent COVID-19 cluster should have been contained earlier – points to
You may remember a few weeks back that Grant Robertson chided Peter Williams on Magic Talk when Williams asked him about The Great Reset that is supposedly happening all around the globe. Robertson’s reaction was surprisingly vehement and he accused Williams of expounding conspiracy theories and other nonsense. Well,
We are starting to see all the hallmarks of a totalitarian government, complete with a Ministry of Propaganda, politicisation of the Police, demonisation of sectors of the community, politicisation of the civil service, turning neighbours against neighbours and the turning of youth into the eyes and ears of the state:
As I’ve reported before, New Zealand is in dire risk of being isolated as the only of the Five Eyes partners to leave its critical infrastructure open to the Chinese Communist Party, by allowing Chinese telco Huawei to participate in building its 5G network. This is no small matter.
The National Party is calling for an inquiry into the Valentine’s Day cluster to see where our response went wrong, and what lessons we can learn. The scope of the inquiry would include: * The performance of contract tracing * Communication of public health messaging * Whether the testing regime met expectations
You may remember at the start of the CCP Virus pandemic there were a lot of rumours flying about regarding a pending lockdown. Jacinda Ardern, at the time, denied there was a lockdown planned and also implored everyone to believe only the government mouthpieces as the “single source of truth”
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It will not be lost on the government, like all political participants with their finger always in the wind, that the latest lockdown has been badly received. That said, I feel it was justified in Auckland given the wide-spread movements of the culprit family.
The magazine “Thrive” has published an interview with the Prime Minister which was conveniently transcribed and summarised in the NZ Herald yesterday. This appears to be the standard direction the NZH ventures in whenever Ardern is up against the wall of public opinion. The focus was on the cuteness of
Mostly we try to avoid sad incidents until they happen to cross our path or the path of someone nearby. This week our local coffee shop/bakery opened during Level 3 lockdown having stayed closed through previous lockdowns. On Tuesday evening the owner was forced to admit defeat and dump
This country has become captive to the whims of fear-driven fools. The latest Auckland lockdown is a case in point. Since ‘Jackboot’ Jacinda Ardern locked us up again, because of an “abundance of caution”, there have been precisely zero further cases of community spread. Either this super tricky virus
