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CBS Underreports Israeli Casualties from Hamas Rockets, Decries Airstrikes

CBS Underreports Israeli Casualties from Hamas Rockets, Decries Airstrikes

Nicholas Fondacaro newsbusters.org Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. After graduating,

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Maori and Pacific Children Failed by Government
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Maori and Pacific Children Failed by Government

David Seymour ACT Leader The Minister for Child Poverty Reduction is letting Maori and Pacific children down according to new school attendance rates. A report released today by the Government ‘Child Poverty Related Indicators’ shows that the school attendance rates of Maori and Pacific children have taken a huge hit

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Weather Eye with John Maunder
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Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 108 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. It’s very common for areas such as Tauranga to have had different observation sites during the years – and the readings from the

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Why NZ’s Public Sector Wage Freeze Ignores the Lessons of History
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Why NZ’s Public Sector Wage Freeze Ignores the Lessons of History

Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. With the government facing a serious backlash over its public sector wage freeze policy, that sound you hear could be the ghost of Rob Muldoon

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COVID-19 Response Deserves Proper Scrutiny

David Seymour ACT Leader David Seymour The Health Select Committee’s refusal to have regular constructive debates about our response to COVID-19 is an indictment of this Government. The Government should be doing everything it can to foster open debate and continuous improvement of our response to COVID. Instead,

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ACT’s Budget for the Battlers
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ACT’s Budget for the Battlers

David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today released our alternative budget, a budget for middle New Zealand, the Kiwis who work hard but are being squeezed from every direction. Rents are increasing rapidly following decades of poor decisions by successive Governments. This has put home ownership out of

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Twitter’s Continuing War on Trump

Twitter’s Continuing War on Trump

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com National Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Kelli Ballard is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing interests span many genres including a former crime/government reporter, fiction novelist, and playwright. Originally a Central California girl, Kelli now resides in the Seattle area. Social media giants Twitter, Facebook,

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What Happened to Governing for All New Zealanders?

What Happened to Governing for All New Zealanders?

David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern’s reasoning for forcing undemocratic union contracts on people who don’t want any part of them just doesn’t add up. The Government originally said only one or two industries would be affected by this policy, then in Parliament today Ardern said three

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PM Must Drop Covert Plan to Redefine Treaty
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PM Must Drop Covert Plan to Redefine Treaty

David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern needs to drop her Government’s covert plan to redefine the Treaty and have an honest conversation with New Zealanders. This Government has unleashed an avalanche of race-based policies and giving Maori greater rights when it comes to conservation land could be the

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A Few Points about That HRW Report

IINZ israelinstitute.nz Human Rights Watch released a report recently that accused Israel of practicing ‘Apartheid’. It was well publicised in the media and by activists. However, there are serious issues with the methodology and findings that can be attributed partly to the character of the authors and employees 1.

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Racism Comes to the Shire

Hendrik van der Breggen mercatornet.com Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Hendrik’s parents survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. I was still half-asleep as I stepped out to the end of our driveway to retrieve our

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