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‘Dreamtime Healing’ Another Predator’s Con
Aboriginal ‘spiritual healer’ on trial for raping patients.
The Courage To Question Compliance
How rules survive long after reason has left the building.
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Rubio Meets With the Pope
If they had a nuclear weapon, make no mistake, when they consider the time is right, they would not hesitate to use it. The religious terrorists will stop at nothing in order to achieve their aims.
This Is Building for the 19th Century
The City Rail Link is a $5.5 billion monument to backward thinking.
Now They’re Reaping the Whirlwind
The only surprising thing about the abolition of the Broadcasting Standards Authority is that it caught so many people by surprise.
The Climate Mythology and Bias
This is a figure so small it’s effectively imperceptible and far below margins of error in any temperature that instruments measure. Less even than the effect that opening your fridge door for a few seconds has on the temperature in your whole house!
Media Luvvies Lose It as Ani O’Brien Holds One of Their Own to Account
The mainstream seem determined to die on this hill, defending their outdated methods while attacking anyone who steps outside the club. Meanwhile the new media age has arrived.
Quick Hit: National to Campaign on Raising Super Age
Luxon delivers Winston Peters a ready-made wedge and stick.
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Face of the Day
“I don’t feel sorry for the media in general for what’s coming. We’ve had this coming” – Heather du Plessis-Allan
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… quiescent (adjective) - 1: marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest 2: causing no trouble or symptoms Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : As you might expect from both its meaning and the sequence of its first four letters, quiescent shares roots with the far more common,