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More Like a Festival Than a Protest
I found out on Friday just before leaving work that my kids, who are under 12 years old, had been vaccinated against my wishes by their mother. This contributed to my spur of the moment decision late Friday night to head from Auckland to Wellington for the weekend to see
New Zealand: 28 People End Their Lives by Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia in First 3 Months since Law Came into Effect
righttolife.org.uk At least 28 people in New Zealand have had their lives ended by euthanasia or assisted suicide in the three months since the practice became legal. The law that allows assisted suicide and euthanasia came into effect in November 2021 following a referendum on the matter a
The Confusion of the Elites
The protest in Wellington is confusing the elites of the media and the politicians. They are arrogantly trying their best to ignore, belittle, denigrate and destroy the protest. Between the Police, the media the Wellington City Council, the political parties and Parliament they have tried their very best to make
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Face of the Day
[…] Ardern told Breakfast the protest outside Parliament “feels imported to me”. “I’ve seen Trump flags on the forecourt, I’ve seen Canadian flags on the forecourt,” she said. Jacinda Ardern says the protest has “tipped well beyond” being about a protest about vaccine mandates to harassment. (Source: Breakfast) […] “It
The BFD Nightcap
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Who Is to Blame for Vaccine Hesitancy?
Donald Boudreaux brownstone.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with Brownstone Institute and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor of economics and former economics-
Protestors Request Meeting With Govt
endthemandatesnz Today marks one week since tens of thousands of New Zealanders from all walks of life, ages and ethnicities came together in a peaceful protest. They travelled from all over the country and have been supported in many ways by hundreds of thousands of Kiwis. They are united in
Is This Biden’s Watergate?
My son said to me recently, “Why is every scandal called something-gate?” It’s a startling reminder for those of us of a certain age that Watergate is already passing into the mists of history. Yet, it was a scandal that, for the first and only time in US
The Climate Cult Is Enfeebling the West
How wisely it is said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Marx and Engels had good intentions when they wrote the Communist Manifesto and Capital. How’d that turn out? The appeasement and anti-war movements of the 1920s and 30s had good intentions, too. But
In Canada It’s Trucks versus Tweets and the Trucks Are Winning
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
What Happens When Cases Go Up?
Vinay Prasad brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is
Mandates Must Be Gone by March
The Freedoms & Rights Coalition We jealousy watch worldwide news as countries like Denmark, the UK, Finland, Czech Republic and more, lift their mandates and COVID restrictions, and we still sit here in New Zealand oppressed and suppressed. With the rest of the world beginning to wake up and acknowledge