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The Consequences of Possible Action against Iran: ‘Unprecedented’?

Perry Trotter The Advocate IINZ At the time of writing my June editorial, the 2021 Israel-Gaza conflict had recently concluded amidst a worldwide surge in antisemitism described by a number of commentators as “unprecedented”. Of course, for many, the conflict of May 2021 is now very much a thing

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How to Destroy Your Worldview in a Single Tweet

How to Destroy Your Worldview in a Single Tweet

How’s this for an own goal? Imagine being a professor whose entire career is based on a single premise — and then blowing that premise out of the water with a single tweet. Ibram X. Kendi, known to his mum and dad as “Ibram Henry Rogers”, is one of the

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Aussie Vaccine Pioneer Faces Sack Under COVID Rules

Aussie Vaccine Pioneer Faces Sack Under COVID Rules

Perhaps nothing exemplifies the bureaucratic lunacy crushing Australians in the name of “covid rules” than the case of Nikolai Petrovsky. Professor Petrovsky is one of Australia’s most respected vaccinologists. He has led the development of an Australian-made covid vaccine: a vaccine currently in phase 3 trials and ready

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Auckland Border Stretching Police Resources to the Limit

Auckland Border Stretching Police Resources to the Limit

With the Government considering keeping the Auckland border in place over summer, it must consider the significant impact this will place on police resources in Auckland and throughout New Zealand, says National’s spokesperson for Police Simeon Brown There are more than 300 police officers dedicated to working the Auckland

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National Launches Campaign to End MIQ

National Launches Campaign to End MIQ

The time has come to end the lottery of human misery that is MIQ, says National’s Covid Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. We have today launched a new petition so that Kiwis on and offshore can tell the Government in no uncertain terms that it’s time to end MIQ.

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Restaurant Assn. Survey Shows Terrible Toll of Lockdowns

David Seymour ACT Leader A survey by the Restaurant Association of over a thousand members shows the grim toll the lockdowns are taking on those in the industry. This Government talks about “being kind” and “governing for all New Zealanders” and yet the health and wellbeing of people in hospitality

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PM Must Rule Out Summer Holiday ‘Timeshares’

PM Must Rule Out Summer Holiday ‘Timeshares’

In a round of confusing media appearances yesterday, the Government piled yet more needless uncertainty on long-suffering Aucklanders by suggesting families will be allocated timeslots to be allowed to leave the city over summer. It seems everyone except the Government can see that this idea is unworkable and ridiculous,

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Jacinda Airdern

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‘Most Hospitalisations Are Vaccine Injured’

‘Most Hospitalisations Are Vaccine Injured’

* 30 out of 38 patients in ICU are vaxed. * Most hospitalisations are vaccine injured. * Myocarditis raging among vaxed. * Massive government/ media coverup. Their words, not mine. This video will be deleted by Facebook before too many get to see it.

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Stuff Quietly Gives Away Jacinda’s Vaccine Plans

You’ve got to hand it to Stuff: it takes real chutzpah to break Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, while at the same time pretending to criticise the Ardern government — but really doing its dirty work. First up: Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states that “Any headline that ends in

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Persecuting Our Fellow Human Beings Is Easy

Persecuting Our Fellow Human Beings Is Easy

Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and

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Ardern Is the Grinch Who Stole Christmas

Ardern Is the Grinch Who Stole Christmas

The government, via Chris Hipkins and Jacinda Ardern, are softening Auckland up for a hard lockdown over summer, with people only allowed to leave the city with the express permission of government officials: Covid Minister Chris Hipkins told Checkpoint the government is considering the option that Aucklanders have an allocated

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