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The UK and Canada Lead the Descent
Both nations are exporting their digital control frameworks through the Five Eyes alliance, a covert intelligence-sharing network uniting the UK, Canada, US, Australia, and New Zealand.
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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
Laughter Is the Best Medicine
This regular post is the place to joke and banish negative thoughts.
Refugees Welcome, Just Not at Her Place
“Refugees are welcome here”… Except that ‘here’ is not her ‘here’: it’s always somebody else’s.
COP30’s Agenda Is Really About Power
If COP30 in Belém is remembered as the ‘COP of truth,’ it should be because citizens saw the truth: behind the rainforest backdrop and people-friendly branding, this process is concentrating power far from the people it claims to serve.
Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon?
Politics may be downstream from culture, but culture is often downstream from religion.
One People, One Flag, Council Declares
“The Australian flag is the best flag to represent all of the community.”
‘Acting like his runners’: Expelled MPs allege Te Pāti Māori co-leaders answer to unelected boss John Tamihere
“I am coming for your boys and I will have utu”.
Govt backs off EV push as fires, crashes and bans fuel public unease
“The bottom’s fallen out of the EV market.”
Mitchell’s electorate office replied to McSkimming emails months before he says he knew
“I am satisfied that all my team at both electorate and ministerial level have acted appropriately and diligently.”
German Air Force conducts major low-flying exercise with RNZAF as global tensions rise
“It allows the Royal New Zealand Air Force to exercise some of its capabilities alongside the German Air Force… helping to enhance interoperability."
Most gluten sensitivity may actually be IBS, major review finds
“Whether non-celiac gluten sensitivity represents a discrete condition or a subset of patients with IBS and specific dietary triggers remains unclear.”
Canadian province moves to curb professional gag rules after Jordan Peterson case
Jordan Peterson “was sanctioned and ordered to undertake a so-called reeducation programme” for comments made outside clinical practice.