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Graham Adams There is a lot of funding and influence riding on successfully casting indigenous knowledge as equal to science. Graham Adams says the debate over the NCEA science syllabus is only the tip of an iceberg. Anyone trying to get a grip on the matauranga Maori debate over the
As predicted, right on schedule, the Government has moved the whole country into the red light setting, choking off any recovery that might have happened. Make no mistake, this has been planned all along and you’ve all been softened up. This prediction was made on the 5th of January:
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government will have to hope that the virus observes Wellington Anniversary Day tomorrow while Ministers take a break. We joke about the Government taking its mind off COVID-19 over summer, but 48 hours since Omicron escaped into the community, Labour MPs are going on
The Government’s lack of preparation for Omicron has unnecessarily put New Zealand in a worse position than we needed to be, National Leader Christopher Luxon says. “Rather than spending the last month urgently boosting as many people as possible, rolling out vaccinations for 5–11-year-olds and buying
First, they brought in lockdowns so they could eliminate the virus, and you all went along with it because you thought staying home saved lives. Then they brought in vaccine mandates for border workers, and you went along with it because you’re not a border worker and it was
Richard Hume I am not sure if this constitutes news but I have finally found a good use for Jacinda Ardern. I have put her photo on my biscuit tin to help keep me away from the Mint Creams and Dutch Marzipan Cakes that I am so vulnerable to. I
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles says New Zealand’s shift to red isn’t going far enough to meet the threat that is Omicron – and her family won’t be entering indoor bars and restaurants while there’s community transmission. Under the red traffic light setting coming into force nationwide from
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Noreen O’Carroll mercatornet.com Dr Noreen O’Carroll is a lecturer in medical ethics at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. The lower house of the Irish Parliament, the Dáil Éireann is currently considering the “Dying with Dignity Bill 2020”. The most striking feature of this bill is
JL Not content to control us and our flow of information, Jacinda is pushing to control everything ever said or done, anywhere. In December our esteemed leader spoke online (first 8 mins) at a conceited puff-fest of heads of state led by ‘sleepy’ Joe Biden. Chinese and Russian state
Paul Frijters Gigi Foster Michael Baker brownstone.org Paul Frijters is a Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics: from 2016 through November 2019 at the Center for Economic Performance, thereafter at the Department of Social Policy Gigi Foster, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor
A trip up to town earlier this week led to the discovery of the resealing of a road near our city pad. We were diverted accordingly which had me thinking that the detour of the bus would have made it miss a sizeable chunk of its normal route. Intrigued as
Guy Hatchard, PhD Guy Hatchard, PhD is a former senior manager at Genetic ID, a food testing and certification company. You may not have noticed this week that our deputy PM Grant Robertson (he who refuses to answer emails about the pandemic because it is nothing to do with him)
It was bitterly cold. My uncle, the husband of my Mother’s sister, had a thin blanket to ward off the chill. He was in a freezing sparsely furnished wooden hut at the specially built Hautu Detention Camp, near Turangi on the Desert Road. Relaying this pacifist family member’s
Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington is an essayist and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) who specializes in Iberian movements of national identity Contemporary Catalan culture. Events in recent days seem to suggest that the managers of the Covid narrative are attempting to effect a
Gary Moller garymoller.com *Updated As unbelievable as it may seem, NZ’s media has not reported the biggest Covid news story since this abomination was imposed on us two years ago. Watch the below video to understand what is going on. Would you believe it, the United Kingdom has
