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‘Where have all our Freedoms gone?’

‘Where have all our Freedoms gone?’

Brian Tamaki Information Opinion Where have all our freedoms gone? So goes the next line in the song “…long time passing.” And according to many of our illustrious politicians, they agree with this tune! Both Sir John Key and PM Jacinda Ardern are joining a global political trend, where they

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book “Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect”. The following are extracts are from pages 10-14, and page 15. The following was published

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A Few Thoughts on the Treaty

A Few Thoughts on the Treaty

Grant Finch The ‘Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi as expressed by the Courts and the Waitangi Tribunal’ explains how the legal profession has arrived at its current position on the Treaty and invented ‘partnership’. This is too narrow an examination as it limits itself to the machinery of law

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This 10-PAGE Book Could Improve Your Mental Health in a Pandemic

MichelleWheeler particle.scitech.org.au Michelle is a former science and environment reporter for The West Australian. Her work has seen her visit a snake-infested island dubbed the most dangerous in the world, test great white shark detectors in a tinny and meet isolated tribes in the Malaysian jungle.

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‘Those Who Torment Us for Our Own Good Will Torment Us without End’

Hendrik van der Breggen mercatornet.com Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor (formerly at Providence University College, Canada) who is double vaccinated, is inclined to think vaccinations are wise (especially if one has a high-risk profile for Covid-19), but probably wouldn’t have gotten

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Computer Models: Garbage In = Garbage Out.

Computer Models: Garbage In = Garbage Out.

Angus Aardvark Computer modelling is very useful: I developed models and used them for many years of commercial prediction work. They are a really powerful tool. But ONLY if you have plenty of feedback and constantly update the model so it can tweak itself to match the real world. Essentially

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

Below is a national missive regarding the change of name for the Ministry of Education (bet you didn’t read about that in the MSM) and the push for Maori greetings for all who answer calls. We have been told using English is “not an option”. The “rebrand” will include

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Hinge/Tinder CEO and Bumble Set up Abortion Funds

righttolife.org.uk The CEO of Match.com and the company behind dating app Bumble have set up abortion ‘relief funds’ to help women to have abortions in response to Texas’ new abortion law. Bumble, a dating app based in Austin, Texas, which also owns dating service Badoo, has spoken

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Online Church = Online Sex

Paul Steinbrueck ourchurch.com The debate over online church has been going on for years now.  In fact, I first blogged about it more than 3 years ago.  But as more and more churches launch Internet campuses, the debate continues to grow.  A few days ago John Piper shared his

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Division along many different lines is becoming the most important concern for me in this country.  The easiest to identify is institutional racism and when we reject that, we can start taking a look at the other causes of division. Another document I found on the Medsafe government site is

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Abortion ‘A Radical Act of Self-Love’ Says UN Special Rapporteur

Abortion ‘A Radical Act of Self-Love’ Says UN Special Rapporteur

righttolife.org.uk A Special Rapporteur for the United Nation’s Human Rights Council has described abortion as “a radical act of self-love”. Last year, the Special Rapporteur, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng from South Africa, released a statement in relation to President Trump’s ‘gag rule’ that prevented American taxpayers’

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