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Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science newzealanddoc.substack.com Each day brings with it its measure of joy or travail. The noise of life hums along and practicalities absorb the attention of most of us, enough so that the profundity of alterations introduced by
Mark Freeman In the run-up to this year’s general election, “experts” are predicting the possibility of a violent attack—even an assassination—on a politician. The warning comes in Radio New Zealand’s recently-released podcast series Undercurrent: Misinformation in Aotearoa, in which presenter Susie Ferguson claims political
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I read with dismay this week that the Labour Party is contemplating removing GST from fresh fruit and vegetables. It will seem such a sensible policy to a great many people, and may therefore attract a lot of votes. As somebody who wants rid of this
The Greens love to lecture us about evidence-based policy, but strangely they never seem to produce any such evidence when it comes to their own policies. Chloe Swarbrick has her knickers in a bunch over Labour’s weak policy response to ram raiders. Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has hit
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William Schryver ronpaulinstitute.org I have long asserted, and I continue to be convinced, that the US could NOT establish air superiority against Russia, China, nor even Iran — not in a week; not in a year. Never. It simply could not be done. American air power would prove substantially inferior
Kate Fitz-Gibbon Kate is Professor and Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Her research is in the area of family violence, legal responses to lethal violence, youth justice and the effects of homicide law and sentencing reform in Australian and international jurisdiction. Marie Segrave Marie
Tim Graham Tim Graham is executive editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the internet era. newsbusters.org The line between radical activism and “mainstream” journalism has
Gary Judd Kc garyjuddkc.substack.com Having been involved with the political left in my youth and early adulthood, I had the same thoughts as Thomas More [“It continues to amaze me that ideals we used to think of as espoused by the political left have been abandoned by so-
Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Today’s Labour Party boasts their credentials by raising beneficiary incomes. It’s so important to them, that a requirement to report regularly on benefit incomes was instigated on advice from the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (headed by Cindy Kiro, who was duly rewarded). Here is
It’s hard to believe, I know. But the editorial in [yesterday’s] issue of the Sunday Star-Times is a worthy read. It’s the Kiri-thing again, but from a different angle. It points out the hypocrisy of complaining about ‘special treatment’ of ‘wahine Maori’ transgressions, pointing to
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve followed our politics since the 1949 election and say without hesitation that the current Green Party mob is the shabbiest lot of the post-war period with one, never to be matched, exception. Namely the abominable Jami-Lee Ross whose catastrophic political career ended
Over the weekend I was reading an article from Reclaim the Net about the revelations that the Biden White House worked hand in glove with Facebook to demonise and destroy what they described as the “Disinformation Dozen”. It was fascinating: Calling somebody a member of the “Disinformation Dozen” – there’s
