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New Zealand Has Just Joined an Overtly Anti-China Alliance

Jane Kelsey University of Auckland Jane Kelsey is one of New Zealand’s best-known public intellectuals. She has taught at the University of Auckland since 1979, specialising in critical analysis of neoliberal policy and international economic regulation. The uncertainty over whether Jacinda Ardern might land a White House meeting and

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One Size Does Not Fit All

One Size Does Not Fit All

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system.

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Stop the Treaty

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com The World Health Assembly are in congress this week to discuss the proposed Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Treaty (“the Treaty”) and amendments to the International Health Regulations (“IHR”). Authored by Kirsten Murfitt from New Zealand Lawyers Speaking Out With Science (NZLSOS)

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Face of the Day

Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta has not directly communicated with New Zealand’s Ambassador to Russia or our Embassy in Moscow since the Ukraine invasion began. Brownlee, National’s foreign affairs spokesperson and a former Foreign Affairs Minister, said the lack of communication between Mahuta and the embassy “makes no

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Blocking Ukrainian Exports – A Crime Without a Name

Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental, and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Trying to gauge the worst aspect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is difficult. For some, it will be the illegal invasion itself. For others,

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Sweden’s Strategy Proven Correct Once Again

Sweden’s Strategy Proven Correct Once Again

Ian Miller brownstone.org Ian Miller is the author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates. His work has been featured on national television broadcasts, national and international news publications and referenced in multiple best-selling books covering the pandemic. He writes a Substack newsletter, also titled “Unmasked”. Throughout

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As Believable as a Three Dollar Bill

As Believable as a Three Dollar Bill

Dr Duncan du Bois duncandubois.co.za Dr Duncan du Bois is a Historian, Political Commentator and Analyst. Information Opinion The World Health Organisation’s claim of 5.4 million deaths directly attributable to Covid-19 and additional 9.5 million as an indirect result, does not square with data disseminated

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The @WHO's track record is poor. Giving them the power to force rules and regulations on the rest of us is a mistake. #originofcovid #stopthetreaty pic.twitter.com/gaYs9vjURH — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) May 17, 2022 If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the

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The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favour Lockdowns

The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favour Lockdowns

Will Jones brownstone.org Will Jones is editor of the Daily Sceptic. The World Health Organisation intends to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official pandemic guidance. The revelation comes in a report scheduled to go to the WHO’s World Health Assembly

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What Does the Pandemic Treaty Do?

Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney based in the United States. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020, and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign and The Masked Ball of

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Democracy, It Was Nice Knowing You

Ever since Plato got his aristocratic knickers in a bunch at the idea of letting the hoi polloi (an ancient Greek expression, meaning “deplorables”) have a say in running things, certain groups have been unable to let go of the conceit that everything would be just fine if they were

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WHO Should Control New Zealand’s Sovereign Rights?
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WHO Should Control New Zealand’s Sovereign Rights?

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Warning Long read. 1624 words. Information

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Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health

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 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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The New Rift between WHO and China

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

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Biden Just Made the Gas Crisis Worse

Biden Just Made the Gas Crisis Worse

Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. Americans are already struggling under the weight of crippling inflation, from skyrocketing gas prices to exorbitant grocery bills. And even if few Americans thought the Biden Administration had a plan to

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