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Waikanae watcher waikanaewatch.org Readers of Stuff’s increasingly dreadful journalism will likely have seen the article on its website from 3 March headed “Covid-19: Destiny Church leaders fleeing Auckland lockdown ‘completely irresponsible‘.” That headline came from a question one of their hacks asked of cabinet minister Chris Hipkins
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 the old Tom Lehrer song, National Brotherhood Week put it, “Everybody hates the Jews”. That’s something that’s becoming sadly more true in recent years, as the scourge of anti-Semitism continues to fester on the right – and spread like a black stain across the left. But, as
Despite the GNLM reports, all is not well in Myanmar as the economy continues to tank. In a continuation of its policy of pretending that life in Myanmar is carrying on as normal, the Global New Light of Myanmar carried this as its main story today. I.S.P.E
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.
Paul Sperry realclearinvestigations.com All told, seven people died in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. But only Ashli Babbitt’s death was directly caused by violence that day. She was a rioter killed by a Capitol Police officer, who fired the only shot by any
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
