Young plumber’s death from Pfizer vaccine side effect could have been prevented, coroner finds
The death of 26-year-old New Zealand plumber Rory Nairn from myocarditis, a “rare” side effect of the Pfizer COVID vaccine, could have been avoided, according to a coroner’s report. Nairn died 12 days after receiving his first dose in 2021, unaware of the risks associated with the vaccine. Coroner Sue Johnson stated that the side effect should have been disclosed to Nairn beforehand.
French New Caledonia Riots: The French Left’s support of ethnic independence abroad, but not at home
The riots in French New Caledonia are a conundrum for France’s left leaning supporters backing the Kanak pro-independence movement. “The French Left finds itself defending arguments about the rights of a people to defend its land and its identity—which in any other context would make them classed as ‘extreme Right’,” writes correspondent Hélène de Lauzun. This is a narrative that may sound somewhat familiar to New Zealanders.
COVID subcommittee hears there is no scientific evidence supporting six-feet social distancing
New testimony from a leading health expert confirms that there was no science behind COVID ‘six feet apart’ social distancing rules. Turns out that they just made it up.
Cambridge prof calls out activists masquerading as climate scientists
The Daily Sceptic’s Chris Morrison writes that people are bored with climate alarmism coming from green billionaires, activists posing as scientists, the Net Zero agenda and “blockhead mainstream journalists who believe science can be ‘settled’,” he writes. Enter Cambridge Professor Ulf Büntgen.
Māori population approaches 1 million, at 17% of total NZ population
NZ’s Māori population is growing slowly, but steadily and has surpassed 900,000, Stats NZ has announced. The Māori population figure of 904,100 (in New Zealand) has been announced by Stats NZ as it readies its 2023 Census data for a May 29 release.
Rodney Hide calls for return to Judeo-Christian beliefs, calls climate, gender and vaccination policies “tyrannical and evil”
Former ACT Party leader and Cabinet Minister Rodney Hide, QSO, has come out swinging against NZ’s cultural and spiritual challenges. “We are in an existential fight between civilisation and barbarism,” he writes.
Ex-CDC director reveals ‘significant side effects’ of COVID vaccines have made some ‘quite ill’
Former CDC Director Dr Robert Redfield recently spoke out about the "significant" side effects of COVID vaccines. Officials who tried to raise concerns about vaccine side effects “kind of got cancelled…because they were afraid that would cause people not to want to get vaccinated,” he said. Redfield said there is a need to acknowledge adverse reactions that made some people "quite ill."