Hatchard Report | 27 May 2022 This morning Jacinda Ardern received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, hitting out in her acceptance speech against keyboard warriors spreading disinformation: “When facts are turned into fiction, and fiction turned into fact, you stop debating ideas and you start debating conspiracy.” Was she echoing Orwell’s 1984? “His mind slid away…
Hatchard Report | 18 May 2022 The New Zealand government relies upon a science body known as Te Punaha Matatini (Centre for Science in Society) whose work is funded directly by the office of the Prime Minister and cabinet. Today, Te Punaha Matatini published a 21 page document entitled “The Murmuration of Information Disorders” (see attached release…
NZ Herald | 22 Feb 2022 OPINION The emergency legislation in response to Covid-19 giving our Government the right to control our freedom of movement is no longer demonstrably justified in removing the fundamental rights to which New Zealanders are entitled. The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 provides in section 18 that everyone…
Jeffrey A. Tucker | 9 Dec 2021 If the pandemic policy response had taken the form of mere advice, we would not be in the midst of this social, economic, cultural, political disaster. What caused the wreckage was the application of political force that was baked into the pandemic response this time in a way…
Bad Cattitude | 7 Dec 2021 Excuse me if this is an obvious question to which everyone knows the answer and kittens do not, but: do you ever worry that maybe none of these people actually believe a word that they say? because it seems like probably these are all just poses by posers. and…
Observer News | 9 Jan 2015 Does the latest release of Hillary’s State Department emails include highly classified U.S. intelligence? Back in October I told you that Hillary Clinton’s email troubles were anything but over, and that the scandal over her misuse of communications while she was Secretary of State was sure to get…
RT | 9 Jan 2016 While the US public may be bored of Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails,” as her rival Bernie Sanders put it, the latest batch of messages – released in the dead of night – offers tantalizing glimpses into what the former secretary of state knew, and when. In a second breach of…
TWSP | 19 Oct 2015 GEORGE W. BUSH ON VACATION AND OUT TO LUNCH DESPITE PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFING OF AUGUST 6, 2001: “BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN US” GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, cast by fate in the role of the GOP’s resident wrecking ball, has this week repeatedly raised the issue of George…
Brian Leyland | 7 Sept 2015 “Things you know that ain’t so – Governments can rely on their expert advisers.” (To be honest, not many people now believe this but it seems that governments frequently do.) In the last few days I have come across two serious derelictions of duty by people relied upon by the government…
NZ Herald | 7 August 2015 The scandal over the Government’s Saudi sheep deal has been going on for months now, and with the release of hundreds of pages of documents this week we may finally have enough evidence to reach some sort of verdict It’s a shadowy and bizarre saga that has spanned 12…