If this absence reflects the totality of MFAT’s internal work, then New Zealand foreign policy is operating with a blind spot large enough to distort the very concept of peace. For the sake of an informed national debate, that must change.
Could a politician be any more disingenuous? Could a politician be any more duplicitous? National may not even be in government in 2029. They may not even exist as a party the way they are going.
Salmond calls for open minds. On this point she is right. But an open mind is not one that refuses to evaluate claims. It is one that is willing to have its own claims evaluated. It is not one that protects ideas from criticism, but one that welcomes criticism as the price of progress.
Reforming this system requires more than ideological shifts or incremental adjustments. The policies governing scientific institutions must be restructured so they are not beholden to an administrative class.
The laws range from silly to serious. In Alabama, it’s technically illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church. In Alaska, pushing a live moose out of an airplane is prohibited.
Dr Oliver Hartwich of the NZ Initiative previously asserted that the solution to the issues created by NZ’s Ministry of Education involved a truckload of TNT. They haven’t changed under the new government.
American officials want Australia to lift defence spending from two per cent of GDP to as high as 3.5 per cent, a level Canberra has not indicated it can meet.
Upon them and the BBC, and Rachel Reeves and Barbara Edmonds and their politics of envy and tyranny in the service of Islamo-Marxism, I bestow the bodily fluid projectile they all deserve: the Barf Award!
Meanwhile, real stories are sitting right in front of them. Political scandals. Integrity issues. Questions of transparency. Things that should actually matter in a functioning democracy.
We need to push back. Hard. Especially going into an election year. We are not the fringe. It is time we stopped allowing others to treat us like we are!
The water is free, but the children are the price.
Trump unleashes $1,000-per-child accounts as billionaire Dell drops $6.25 billion.
Neither REAL ID nor Confirm.ID is compatible with respect for liberty. They should be thrown away along with the TSA’s long list of harassment activities.
The government has announced a statutory national inquiry that will examine the ethnicity and religion of offenders and state failures.
The ‘kill list’ that exposes a global crisis of escalating antisemitism. Governments must pursue the perpetrators with the same determination they would apply to any other violent extremist organisation.
