Globally states are introducing new instruments to limit speech rights, and a new terror research centre in New Zealand looks to be a back door to do just that.
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June 8, 2022
Legacy media pushes the mask mandate: the New Zealand case
Amendments to mask rules appear to triangulate ID systems with vaccination and contact tracing. In this guest post Jodie Bruning asks if this for the benefit of society, or for the benefit of digital identity schemes?
June 5, 2022
Is the Government about to reintroduce a mask mandate for schools?
Developments suggest that is the plan.
May 27, 2022
Media myth-making: time to take a long hard look in the mirror
If the media doesn’t check itself, it’s likely to censor itself out of existence.
May 4, 2022
‘The multipolar world is here’: Greg Simons on the geopolitical moment
In this interview focused on the war in Ukraine, crisis communications and Russia expert Greg Simons gives his take on where the world finds itself in 2022.
April 29, 2022
New Zealand used selective science and force to drive high vaccination rates
In this guest post, sociologist Jodie Bruning examines the Government’s questionable decision-making in the covid-era.
April 25, 2022
Renewed push to deregulate GMOs in New Zealand
Biotech lobbyists have been playing the long game on GMO deregulation, and now a 2021 report from the Productivity Commission recommending a review of our strict GMO laws is being used to advance the cause, with little genuine scrutiny by media.
April 5, 2022
‘Vaccines’, flawed covid data, injury and denial
Two years after covid hysteria hit we must come to terms with the sleight of hand used to buy our compliance, and face up to the devastating harm the injection has caused.
March 2, 2022
Why the left now looks more like the hard right
Reaction to freedom protests show our relationship with state power is changing – and not for the better.
February 22, 2022
The hysterical mislabeling of a freedom protest
As protesters at parliament continue to garner support from fed up kiwis, the campaign to slur them has only intensified.