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Pakuranga Fire and a Cheap Shot
Spare us the moral grandstanding about firefighters “gambling with lives” when the real gamble is a system that underpays essential services while happily burning money elsewhere.
A Custody Battle Over Son’s Gender
The father says the ruling is based on an interpretation of “gender dysphoria” that he rejects. He believes that serious medical questions, complex neurodevelopmental issues, and recorded concerns in medical records have been overlooked.
The Politics of Our Language
That is “reverse language imperialism”. And, the politics of language in New Zealand.
New Review Linking Jab to Cancer Targeted
Shortly after publication, Oncotarget became inaccessible, with the journal attributing the outage to an ongoing cyberattack that has been reported to the FBI.
This Sets a Precedent
The question is not whether Maduro deserved his fate. The question is what kind of world we are building when we cheer the method that delivered it.
This Is State Sponsored Arrogance
Latest developments in a storm that’s not in a teacup.
The Monopoly in Behind MMH
Entrusting millions of Kiwis’ health records to a one-man monopoly was a disaster waiting to happen and we’re all waking up to the cost of that mistake.
The Feedlot Protocol and Flipping the Script
For five decades, the government built your body on bread.
And So the Coroner Dismisses the Vaccines
We are left with another reminder that, when it comes to Covid vaccines, the threshold for dismissal remains lower than the threshold for scrutiny.
Why I Am So Grateful to Tim Walz
Ultimately solving this problem will come down to Congress. They have to be willing to do this. And for the most part, they aren’t. Too many of their constituents and donors make money off this graft, and a portion of the funds end up as campaign contributions.
International Law and the Undiscovered Realm
So no, the US shouldn’t have done it. But the fact that it can get away with it means it did. My teacher would smile, shrug, and simply reply, “Well, that’s just how it works.”
The Royal Commission in Australia
These are the six key questions the antisemitism royal commission needs to answer.
These Assurances of Safety Are Worthless
The power to interfere with evolution is not a blessing, it is a curse.
Will We Miss an Export Opportunity?
The debate has become increasingly political and personal, with concerns raised about domestic policy settings that could affect New Zealand’s ‘premium’ food branding, including proposed genetic engineering reforms and environmental initiatives targeting agricultural emissions.