So They Set Brushfires
What chance do the “progressive forces” have of prevailing in the battle for the future if they are forced to admit, if only to themselves, that the left is losing to the right in a fair fight?
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Person-level persistent surveillance is only one aspect of the enormous surveillance grid being built around us. Every bit of data will be used in some way.
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Radically reducing immigrant arrivals and visa restrictions is one thing, but rounding up people who may have been in the country for decades because they don’t ‘look like a Kiwi’ is quite another – and a much more horrifying – story.
On Racism and the Left
Why do today’s leftists find it difficult to communicate in any other register but outrage?
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Ani O’Brien said “in desperation or frustration” she made a complaint with NetSafe – which receives and assesses complaints – and then took the case under the Harmful Digital Communications Act.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… tacit (adjective) - 1: expressed or carried on without words or speech 2: implied or indicated (as by an act or by silence) but not actually expressed Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : In the first chapter of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the narrator Mr. Lockwood recounts
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.