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Are You Ready for Vaccine Passport Control?

Are You Ready for Vaccine Passport Control?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com The world’s 20 largest economies, known as G20, held their annual summit in Bali this week. Vaccine passports, connected to the planned World Health Organisation framework, are a feature of the agenda. These people aren’t just the WEF crazies

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Nats Brand Govt as Soft on Crime

Nats Brand Govt as Soft on Crime

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. As government politicians put the boot into National’s bootcamp announcement yesterday, Christopher Luxon would have been celebrating.

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What’s the Problem with Progressive “Experts”?

Claudio Grass mises.org Claudio Grass is a Mises ambassador and an independent precious metals advisor based out of Switzerland. His Austrian approach helps his clients find tailor-made solutions to store their physical precious metals under Swiss law. It can be argued that the world has reached the sorry

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Platitudes Should Not Drive Energy Policies
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Platitudes Should Not Drive Energy Policies

Last week I reaffirmed that National is committed to net zero by 2050 and announced that we will reverse the offshore oil and gas exploration ban should we be successful at the next election. I also announced that we would not pursue a 100 per cent renewable electricity target, nor

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

After six proposals and tens of thousands of submissions, a revised hate speech law proposal has been announced, with now only one change to the Human Rights Act. In a press release, the Free Speech Union (FSU) is cautiously celebrating: This morning Justice Minister Kiri Allan announced on Newshub Nation

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Daddy Xi Puts Albo in His Place

Daddy Xi Puts Albo in His Place

Left-wing Australian Twits were beside themselves with joy this week. In scenes of rapture not seen since Neville Chamberlain waved his little piece of paper, the left-elite worked themselves into a lather over the sight of PM Anthony Albanese obsequiously grasping the proffered hand of their favourite Big

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Can Victoria Get Any Weirder?

Can Victoria Get Any Weirder?

Can things get any more farcically rotten in Victoria? This is, after all, a state whose premier is heading into an election under the cloud of something like his fifth corruption investigation, not to mention questions over a 2013 car crash that nearly killed a teenage cyclist. Accusations of unfair

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US Midterm Review

A couple of weeks back I had written an essay on the US elections saying I was being very cautious, not buying into the “red wave” stuff, and waiting for the votes to be counted before proclaiming victory. There seem to have been unfulfilled expectations and a consequent sense of

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ACT Will Repeal Hate Speech Laws

ACT Will Repeal Hate Speech Laws

Justice Minister Kiri Allan has watered down Labour’s Hate Speech laws because Kiwis rejected Labour’s attempt to strip away their freedom of speech, but even in their current state they are not compatible with a free and open society and ACT will repeal them. Preventing freedom of expression

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The Problem with the Bollards

The Problem with the Bollards

Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. If bollards were the solution to ram raids and youth crime, then the National Party’s solution of fog cannons would have solved it eight years ago – because it’s the same thing. The reason why they both won’t work is that they aren’

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They Are Still Lying

They Are Still Lying

Information Opinion Where’s Kate Hannah and the Disinformation Project when you need them to take a look at the Ministry of Health’s Covid website? Too busy trolling through Facebook to find Covid subversives disguised as homemakers braiding children’s hair with flowers? …there is no evidence that the

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He’s Running for Sure
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He’s Running for Sure

There have been constant rumours of Jacinda Ardern resigning and disappearing off to some sinecure position at the UN, or more likely with her World Economic Forum pals with whom she has been hobnobbing at various conferences. When politicians start doing soft, fluffy PR interviews then you know something is

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Denial of the Day
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Denial of the Day

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. During an interview with Attitude, a British gay lifestyle magazine, the current deputy Prime Minister was asked if he had any response to the statement, “You could be the first out gay Prime Minister of New Zealand”. Robertson […] responded

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Abortion Pirates Take to the High Sea to Flout State Law
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Abortion Pirates Take to the High Sea to Flout State Law

righttolife.org.uk Since Roe v Wade was overturned, 13 states have made abortion illegal, leading activists to launch an ‘at sea’ abortion campaign to provide abortions on boats. According to the Guardian, some states that continue to allow abortions have seen an increase in women seeking abortion from neighbouring

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Coulter to Trump: For God’s Sake, Just Go

Coulter to Trump: For God’s Sake, Just Go

Back in 2016, Ann Coulter was widely mocked for calling the presidential race for Donald Trump just days after he announced that he was running. On the eve of the election, she declared him her favourite politician in history. So, when Coulter calls out Trump’s woeful contribution to the

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Jam Tomorrow but No Jam Today

November 17th, 2022. The only chance the conservatives have electorally is if the electorate thinks that the measures are fair and the pain is shared. It is 2 budgets in one, 1 for today’s issues and one for election year 2025. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) needed to

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