The Most Important Lesson For Your Child’s Future
Maybe you don’t want this to be true and I understand this sentiment because you are nice. But it is true. Your child’s world will not be nice, so the time for being nice is over.
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The Elephant in the Room
British colonisation delivered literacy, medicine, infrastructure, government, economic development and the longest period of sustained peace the country had known. It was, relative to the alternatives, the most stable and least violent path New Zealand could realistically have taken.
2:1 Support for Ban on Puberty Blockers
National, ACT, NZ First and Te Pāti Māori supporters had net favourability to the ban, with Labour voters evenly split, and Green voters unsurprisingly opposed.
Willie Jackson’s MUMA Mess: McCarten Drops the Boardroom Bomb on Hipkins; Legacy Media Still Snoozing
Every day the legacy media buries its head, it’s another kick in the guts for those MUMA workers suffering in silence. They’ve abrogated their duty to hold power to account, preferring cosy chats with the powerful over gritty truth-telling.
Good Oil General Debate
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Face of the Day
Haeata Community Campus, the site of last week’s school lunch debacle, was among those questioned by the Office of the Auditor-General over funding an $18,500 trip to Queenstown for six staff members.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… mariner (noun) - : a person who navigates or assists in navigating a ship : seaman, sailor Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : In Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an old seaman tells of how, by shooting a friendly albatross, he had brought storms and disaster to
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city.
Wednesday Weapons
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Iwi Housing Deal Explained: Are We Creating Two New Zealands?
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Bryce Edwards Argues That The Coster/McSkimming Saga Is Not Over Yet
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Matt McCarten – Update On MUMA & Willie Jackson Story
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The Good Oil Daily Roundup
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Good Oil Backchat
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The Global Rise of Online Speech Policing
Governments are tightening control over what citizens can say online. The worldwide slide toward punishing speech has profound consequences for open societies.