Atlas Monitor’s submission to NZ govt COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2)

Atlas Monitor | 16 Oct 2021 [Atlas Monitor editor’s note: AM’s submission (with postscript edits/updates) to the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2). Special thanks to Roger Bull and Voices For Freedom for their contributions] Introduction There is no justification whatsoever for either the original powers to be extended or additional powers added.…

The medical industrial complex and its discontents

Atlas Monitor | 16 July 2016 Siouxsie Wiles is a glow-worm studying microbiologist whose wailing dogmatic scientism  can be read from time to time at the website The Spinoff. From her attack dog-bullhorn column she sics on anyone who dares question conventional scientific wisdom particularly when it comes to so-called “medical orthodoxy” i.e. the vaccine-pharmaceutical model for medicine. She…

Scotland faces prospect of 2nd referendum

Atlas Monitor | 25 June 2015   Scotland faces the prospect of a second referendum on independence from the UK if it is to stay in the European Union. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that a second referendum is on the table. Sturgeon said it was a ‘democratic outrage’ that Scotland would be forced…

Trump versus Clinton: the “liberal” bias in academia writ large

Atlas Monitor | 11 June 2016 Two posts were published recently on the University of Auckland’s Political Studies department blog Pacific Outlier that illustrate the pseudo-liberal bias in academia and in particular the social sciences. The views expressed in the articles demonstrate the susceptibility to popular memes with presumably left-leaning scholars that manifest as political…

Muhammad Ali versus Cassius Clay

Atlas Monitor | 9 June 2016 The original Cassius (Marcellus) Clay (1810-1903) was an American politician and abolitionist active during the administration of Abraham Lincoln. Clay pushed Lincoln to free slaves under Confederate control and was a key player behind Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. Muhammad the “Holy Prophet” of Islam and his cousin and son-in-law Ali…