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Robert Zumwalt mises.org Robert Zumwalt is an attorney with undergraduate degrees in economics and political science. One narrative currently being circulated in support of vaccine mandates is that unvaccinated people will cause an undue strain on the healthcare system because they are more likely to contract covid-19 and
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Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Cabal (noun): 1. A secret intrigue. 2. A political clique or faction. These are the two main definitions in my Oxford Dictionary. There’s a third, historical one which reveals that the word originated under King Charles II, who had a committee of five
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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s view was of the approach to Wellington harbour. Moa point is on the left of the picture with barrels reef dead ahead. Editor
Francis Kennedy I want you to forget about Covid, passports and traffic lights for a moment and I want to throw one word out there – “process”. Picture any disaster movie you want and you can visualise a round table of experts drawn from various countries or fields to discuss how
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Harry Hunt In a desperate attempt to not acknowledge their failures, Labour has done the smart thing. They have listened to the National Party. By doing this, they are acknowledging the ghost of Kiwibuild over 4 years after it failed and how it will haunt their tarnished legacy for a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Pandora Papers beat-up revealed, not the terrible scandal the international group of newspapers behind the loudly proclaimed “revelation”, but rather the desperate state of the print media fighting for its survival. So Putin’s a crook with massive assets hidden behind a trust.
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This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments I grew up in a New Zealand where we looked up to really inspiring people. People who made
Dear Editor The legacy of Ardern is shaping up to be the most divisive in NZ history, even surpassing Muldoon’s tenure as PM and that is somewhat unkind to him as he achieved many good things and his modus operandi was clearly understood. The current government has been surreptitiously
