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Liam Petterson Deputy Editor, Health + Medicine, The Conversation Is it time to rethink vaccine mandates for dining, fitness and events? We asked 5 experts The requirement to show proof of two doses of a COVID vaccine to do things such as eat out, go to the pub and visit sporting
Vera Stanton February 3rd was a day long-awaited by those locked out of their own country, as new announcements from the Podium of Truth would reveal if and when they could finally return home. Unsurprisingly, the announcements were couched in the usual self-congratulatory rhetoric and failed, yet again,
Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com Guy Hatchard PhD is formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a food safety testing and certification company. This is the first of a series of reflective articles on Covid data and causality. I note that the Ministry of Health Covid-19 Science Updates web
Ananish Chaudhuri ananishchaudhuri.com Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19.” As we approach the second anniversary of WHO’s designation of Covid 19 as a pandemic in March 2020, many countries
Dear Editor The increasing use of Aotearoa or Aotearoa New Zealand and a corresponding drop in the use of New Zealand, without any mandate from the people, is of concern. We had a referendum a few years ago on changing our flag and that is how such changes should be
As time moves forward those of us who resisted mandates, stood strong, and thumbed our nose at the divisiveness promulgated by the evil regime of the tyrant Ardern, are getting to multiple ‘I told you so’ moments. The more people who are double or triple vaxxed catching the WuPox the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week or so back Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta issued a warning to Putin re invading the Ukraine. I’ve waited to see if it worked. Well, it certainly appears to have done as ever since the Russians have issued appeasement noises. Putin suffers from
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If you have a great Youtube, Rumble, Odysee or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz Transcript of David Seymour’s State of the Nation Speech 2022 3 February, 2022 Introduction Thank you very much to Russell McVeagh for hosting this event. Thank you to Tim
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more
I’ve been saying for over a year that the politicians and bureaucrats will never let us be free again if they can help it. I hate being right. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than by the ever-shifting goalposts on vaccinations. First it was 70% and we’ll let
As BFD readers are probably aware, I’m not exactly a fan of Islam — at least, its shouty, stabby, blowy-uppy zealots. But I’m not a fan of shouty, blowy-uppy zealots of any creed. When you talk about destruction, you can count me right out. And when it’
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. We’re into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic. From mask mandates to vaccine passports, government restrictions on our liberties remain in place. But, thankfully, at least in the
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Dr. Julie Ponesse was a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron
Australia has quite a track record for royal commissions. In just the 120 years that they’ve been legislated, we’ve had no less than 139 of them — and that doesn’t count the state-based ones. Everything from the butter industry (1904-05) to bushfires (2009) and institutional child
