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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Peering through the gloom, I think I can see light at the end of the tunnel. The covid pandemic is all but over! Let me explain, noting that I am all too fallible, that I am an incurable optimist, that I am not medically qualified, that
Daily News Roundup – 29 January 2021
Covid: MIQ Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Calls to restrict returnee numbers to avoid more Covid-19 outbreaks 1News: NZ should ‘have goal of no Covid-19 positive people’ arriving into country – Michael Baker RNZ: Pressure mounts for full audit of MIQ network after Covid-19 community cases John Anthony (Stuff): Allowing
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
Good afternoon, I’m lost for words upon reading this – “I can’t speak for Australia and the way it runs its diplomatic relationships, but clearly if they were to follow us and show respect, I guess a little more diplomacy from time to time and be cautious with wording,
Plague Ships: Why Are People Leaving Quarantine Hotels with COVID-19?
It seems odd that people are leaving quarantine hotels, otherwise known as Managed Isolation Facilities, with COVID-19. Speaking as someone currently interned in one, it is also very disturbing. In any western liberal democracy, quarantine hotels are a gross outrage. It is beyond the pale that a socialist government
MP Launches Bill to Protect Freedom of Speech at University
righttolife.org.uk A Conservative MP is advancing a Bill to protect freedom of speech at universities from a “corrosive trend… that aims to prevent anybody from airing ideas that groups disagree with or would be offended by”. Last week, David Davis MP offered an impassioned defence of the importance
Dutch Riots Are a Sign of a People Fed Up
Perhaps the most astonishing – and alarming – thing about the Wuhan Plague is the way in which populations around the world have meekly submitted to opportunistic wannabe dictators in governments and bureaucracies exploiting the crisis with indecent haste. Quicker than you can say “Reichstag fire”, governments have stripped away hard-won
Xi’s Hypocrisy Contains a Warning for NZ
Germany wishes, as with all countries, including America, peace and friendship. Adolf Hitler Those were the words of Adolf Hitler, in January 1939, less than half a year before he unleashed the German war machine without provocation and after the other Western powers had repeatedly granted extraordinary concessions to his
“Never Again” What?
Dave Pellowe The Goodsauce News 27 January 2021 I am challenged on this day, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to explain exactly what the world promised when it swore “Never again!” in the wake of the realisation of the horrors of the Holocaust, ended only by the defeat of Germany at
History Will Come to Praise Trump, Not Bury Him
I’m old enough to remember when Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser was vilified as a “fascist dictator” and his name defaced with Nazi swastikas. I’m also old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan was going to immolate the world in a nuclear holocaust. Yet Fraser went to his
A Catastrophic Cock-Up
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com January 26 2021 A week ago on this Blog I wrote, “We’re now in a fingers crossed situation, hoping that the new rapid mutation transmission variety doesn’t hit our shores. That’s not something I’d bet on”. As it transpired that was
Release the Hounds!
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A Vaccine No Silver Bullet against COVID
Last week Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern dubbed 2021 the “year of the vaccine” and outlined parts of her government’s plans for a mass vaccination rollout across the country. Ardern pins her hopes on a vaccine to halt our rising tide of Covid deaths (sarc) which is as believable as
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