Guy Hatchard | 3 Nov 2022 Two days ago I wrote that last year’s government Covid advice about disinformation, when read today in the light of recently published science, was itself disinformation. That night I watched Web of Chaos, an hour-long TVNZ government-funded documentary compiled with the help of main players from our very own Disinformation Project.…
NZCPR | 19 July 2022 Since their election in 2017, Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government has embarked on an ambitious programme of significant public policy transformation and reform. In line with the PM’s deeply held socialist view that more State control produces better outcomes, centralisation has been the preferred approach. Accordingly, on 1 October 2019 three…
Bad Cattitude | 18 June 2022 it has been from mental illness (and this illness has long been spreading) covid did damage and took lives. how much and how many (and how many were near end of life already) is debatable, but when you look back remember several things: none of these mitigations worked. not…
Bad Cattitude | 11 May 2022 Cross disciplinary incompetence a friendly reminder: pretty much none of the people the government claims to be experts are really experts in any functional sense. mostly, they have no idea what they are talking about and probably wouldn’t tell you if they did. this is universal across disciplines. economics,…
Hatchard Report | 6 May 2022 A few months ago I requested that the local authority remove a couple of trees on their land that were leaning dangerously over our driveway. Today I received an email affirming that they had completed the work. I went down to look at the result and the trees were…
Mercola | 14 Apr 2022 STORY AT-A-GLANCE April 1, 2022, another batch of 11,000 Pfizer documents were released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Pfizer trial data reveal natural immunity was as effective as the jab, and that shot side effects were more severe in those under 55. Since the risk of severe COVID…
Brownstone Institute | 7 Mar 2022 In what in retrospect (and lamentably) were the very early days of the panicdemic (October, 2020), I wrote: No, the pandemic is not a virus, it is a pandemic outbreak of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy which focuses its obsessions on the virus. Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is a mental…
Pirate Wires | 8 Mar 2020 pravda, the collapse of truth in a world without trust, and dawn of the reality entrepreneur I’ve been interested in the bizarre, almost clownish effect of trust erosion on our culture for many years now, and trying to imagine the shape of our information ecosystem — and world — to come.…
BFD | 16 Dec 2021 Over the years I have met, had lunch, dinner, drinks or meetings with a vast number of politicians. Some were great, most were average, but none, with one exception, were evil. I grew up in a political family. We had cabinet ministers and prime ministers over for dinner. My mother…
Jamie White | 12 Dec 2012 Governments panic as their COVID narrative collapses in the face of growing protests against lockdowns and vaccine mandates. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that taxpayer funds would be set aside for journalists who produce stories pre-approved by the government. Ardern explained the initiative during a so-called “Democracy…