This is the second part of an analysis provided by British writer Chris R on the failure of the Left to stand up to covid authoritarianism. In this part he examines some of the fundamentals of contemporary Left thinking that might explain why and how it failed to respond correctly to the covid challenge, including a horror of ‘conspiracy theories’, a pernicious anti-industrial mentality, and, amongst the intelligentsia, alienation from productive economic work.
How dare they!
New Zealand orders fluoridation of water supplies while many developed nations, including Israel, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden have abandoned or banned water fluoridation, writes Keri Molloy in this guest post.
Ministry of Truth NZ: The documents that reveal the government’s many tentacled approach to mass political monitoring
Two documents released under OIA lay out the mindset and the cross-agency apparatus the government set up to monitor and record so-called ‘mis-and-disinformation’. They raise serious questions about whether or not the state is respecting citizens’ privacy and right to free speech and whether it’s treating political dissent as ‘disinformation’.
The Left and Covid – Part I: Reflections on a catastrophe
In this two-part guest post, British writer Chris R gives a visceral account of the Left’s failure to stand with working people in the covid era, instead siding with the oppressor.
‘Misinformation’ used as justification for tracking and censoring lawful speech by secretive British government units
Labeling some speech as ‘mis-and-disinformation’ has become a convenient way for governments to justify tracking and attempting to control the expression of dissenting views, including those of journalists and MPs, as a new report from the UK shows.
Therapeutic Products Bill: Labyrinthine & unaccountable as it exits the starting gate?
In this guest post Jodie Bruning examines another draconian piece of legislation. She notes that the proposed Bill offers no cost benefit analysis, an empty Bills Digest, no RIS, a governance culture that persistently ignores and underfunds diet & nutrition. She says Cabinet Ministers are letting us down.
Freedom, as we know it, hangs on meetings in Geneva this week
In this guest post from Keri Molloy, she discusses proposed changes to the International Health Regulations being discussed by World Health Organisation this week and New Zealand’s role in them. She says health authorities face a trust crisis.
Groan – Let’s talk about the lazy bigotry directed at the unvaccinated
Public sanction has been given for open bigotry against a new underclass in the ‘tolerant’ and ‘progressive’ west.
Evil is borne from a failure to think
This piece was written in September 2021, before vaccine passes were introduced in New Zealand. It documents my growing horror with the pronouncements coming from our leaders and the willingness of so many to go along with them.
New Zealand’s International Vaccination Certificate: a Ponzi scheme?
Jodie Bruning dissects the murky presumptions behind the need for international vaccine passes and lack of any scientific justification for their implementation, which appear to have been locked into the Government’s agenda from early on in covid times.