BY IAN MILLER | BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE | FEBRUARY 26, 2022 An infuriatingly consistent aspect of the mainstream media’s COVID coverage was their determination to prematurely credit a country with a wildly successful set of policy interventions. While there has been no track record of universally accurate predictions or expectations, the desire to claim victory as […]
By Guy Hatchard | February 15, 2022 A remarkable trove of documents has been created in New Zealand by an organisation called Te Punaha Matatini—Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa hosted by the University of Auckland but funded directly by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa is headed by the wildly inaccurate Covid modeller Dr Shaun […]
By Richard House | The Daily Sceptic | February 13, 2022 Inspired by the Canadian truckers, a number of New Zealand Freedom Convoys started out on February 5th from the tip of the North Island and the bottom of the South Island to converge on Wellington. Most of the South Island convoy is still camped at Picton (top of […]
By Guy Hatchard | TCW Defending Freedom | February 12, 2022 FROM our unique perspective in New Zealand there is probably no more twisted tale of the pandemic than the transformation of medical ethics. Due to our closed borders, NZ has so few Covid cases (18,000 at the time of writing) and almost no Covid […]
SUNDAY SCREENING | The message from New Zealand's freedom fighters could not be any clearer.
By Guy Hatchard | TCW Defending Freedom | February 4, 2022 New Zealand – The Medsafe report Adverse events following immunisation with COVID-19 vaccines: Safety Report #39 – 31 December 2021 lists 46,000 adverse events reported since the start of the Pfizer vaccine rollout in New Zealand. Historically this is 30 times the rate of adverse effects reported […]
BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER – BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE – JANUARY 30, 2022 If there is a historical precedent for the truckers’ revolt in Canada, and the populist protests in so many other parts of the world, I would like to know what it is. It surely sets the record for convoy size, and it is historic […]
By Edward Chancellor | The Daily Sceptic | January 25, 2022 Now that Covid restrictions are being rolled back, various commentators are declaring victory over the miserable virus. Lockdowns, we are told, worked. Only a fool could argue otherwise. Devi Sridhar, the Chair of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University, who was formerly an exponent of the […]
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. “anti-vaxxers are joining racist militias” We’ve covered the increasing demonisation of the “anti-vaxxers” regularly for over a year now. Ever since Joe Biden announced …
By Guy Hatchard | TCW Defending Freedom | January 14, 2022 The Government should be your single source of truth SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in Parliament: ‘I want to send a clear message to the New Zealand public: we will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You […]
