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The Use of Behavioural Nudging and Masks
Al Johnson nzcovidresponse.substack.com This week the seven-day isolation and mask mandates in healthcare were extended. When we started getting hammered by Covid in 2022 (ah, the memories of those 20k+ cases a day), it was after existing community mask mandates were ‘strengthened’ to beat the spread back
The Prison Is Too Full. Huh?
Today a NZ Herald headline reads: “Frontline police told to ‘consider necessity’ of bail arrests as NZ’s largest prison nears capacity” There are two immediate problems with the headline. How can any New Zealand prison be near capacity when the prison population has been actively reduced by well over
Govt Resumes Catch and Release Crim Policy
Labour’s ‘soft on crime’ credentials have received yet another confirmation. Frontline police have been told to “consider necessity of arrests”, because apparently the prisons are full; despite the policy of emptying them out over the last six years. Some frontline police have been told to “consider necessity of arrests”
They Want to What? A Look at Transhumanism
[This piece is an excerpt from The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty.] The notion that the world can be replicated and replaced by a simulated reality says a great deal about the beliefs of those who promote the metaverse [treated in the previous chapter]. The conception is materialist
OMG! Trouble in Green Paradise
A political pundit believes the Green Party needs to figure out what its identity is before this year’s election after MP Elizabeth Kerekere called Chlöe Swarbrick a “crybaby” in a group chat. […] It was sent as Swarbrick spoke in the House on her Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Harm
Could Long Covid Be Caused by Masks?
It was enforced in Western countries with the same ferocity, meticulousness and categorical unforgivingness with which the hijab is forced upon women in Islamic countries. Never before had the government induced a trend in society so invasive and so disruptive to human life, and never had such an intrusion been
Not All Wounds Are Visible
PA Pundits – International The battle is raging across the land. God has something to say about this. I walked past my twin brother’s hospital bed to the end of the ward, not recognizing anyone I had passed. I had asked the nurse at the entrance of the ward for
The Push Back on EVs
You may not know it if you rely solely on American media, but there is a growing revolt across much of Europe against Net Zero mandates in general and electric vehicle mandates in particular. It seems that, led by luxury carmakers, the future may be bright for the venerable internal
We Are Not All the Same
Corina Shields There has been a lot of talk about race-based policies in New Zealand. And why wouldn’t there be? The Maori Health Authority, the rebranded Three Waters reform, compulsory Te Reo Maori education for children… These are just some issues for many and rightfully so. Not everyone
A True Voice for the North
Good evening and thank you all for being here tonight. The next election has been set down for the 14th of October and we are getting ready for it, but should there an earlier election, we plan to be ready for that as well. We meet tonight in the heart
Waka Ko Takey: The Affordable Pig
Rod Kane This week it was announced by the PM Mr Chumpy Schitkins (Slippery Chumpy) that news would be forthcoming imminently on the final solution to the taxpayer question… with regard to water anyway. Mr Schitkens and the MP for the Wairarapa, Mr Karen McAnally flew in one day and
Using Group Behaviour, for Bad or Good
Daniel Hirst It doesn’t take an encyclopaedic knowledge of history and politics to know humanity tends to scapegoat individuals or groups to water the thirst for collective violence or to resolve tensions and angst. The scapegoating mechanism is at the heart of the Western canon: both Socrates and Jesus
Folly of the Day
Auckland Light Rail (ALR) is paying about $920,000 a week to two engineering companies to plan and design the central city-to-airport light rail project and a further $310,000 to its own contractors and consultants. The figures came from Transport Minister Michael Wood in response to a
They Are Trying to Erase Women
Louise M Diack kiwi-chronicle.ghost.io Recently I’ve found myself longing for another era of not too long ago. A less complicated time when people knew what a woman was and this was celebrated. Women had carved out their place in the world – as entrepreneurs, mothers, corporate leaders,
What They Won’t See Hurts Everyone
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the left are low-information dogmatists. They will furiously deny plain facts, if the facts contradict their dogmas. Not just because they’re bigots, but because they’re so thoroughly ignorant. When the left deny well-established scientific facts