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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.
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India Drops Bid to Host UN’s COP33 Climate Conference
With India out and emitter number one China playing the world on climate the entire time, it certainly underscores how ridiculously futile painful climate policies in Europe, America, Australia, or Japan continue to be.
Spain’s Hot New Residency Program Is Perfect for Triathletes
If your policy is to attract the best and brightest to come, work hard, and adopt your values, your country will do well. If you advertise free benefits to illegals, you’ll get exactly what you asked for. Immigration by itself is not the problem. The problem is when there’s bad incentives.
‘Transgender’ Male to Play in Women’s League
Golding addressed the issue in a video where he claimed to be a “transgender woman” and said “I’m not the biggest and tallest player going around, and by no means am I a dominant player”. But Mr Kernahan said Golding was “six foot two or three, 92kg”.
The Growing Threat From the Far Right?
Our own intelligence service is telling us that violent extremism doesn’t belong exclusively to the right, or the left. Perhaps we should start listening. Because a threat that we’ve persuaded ourselves doesn’t exist is much harder to stop.
What the Left Constantly Ignores
If the left (Labour, the Greens, TOP and the Māori Party) was sincere about reducing child hardship they’d stop ignoring crucial evidence.
A Paper Apologises for Not Lying
A male artist forced a small local paper to stop telling the truth.
National’s List and the Quirks of MMP
National needs more votes, not a new electoral system.
And Here We Go…
Imagine asking Gemini about the Musket Wars and being told, in not so many words, that it can’t help you because it’d make Māori look bad. Make no mistake. This isn’t about human rights or “te Tiriti”. It’s a blatant power grab.
Why We All Should Fear a Ngāi Tahu Victory
Water is a universal necessity and it is not a commodity to be divided along ethnic lines. To yield control of New Zealand’s most vital public asset to tribal interests is to trigger a dangerous constitutional crisis.
Hipkins Finally Rules Out Peters – Four Years Late and Full of Hypocrisy
Labour will lecture the country about racism while keeping the door open to the most racially focused party in parliament. Some principles, it seems, only apply to the other side.