George Orwell warned about an all-powerful state spying on our every move; Aldous Huxley worried that consumer culture would simply lull us into happily embracing slavery. Both were right. In China, the paranoid communist state uses high-tech to spy on its populace and condition their behaviour, like a billion Pavlov’
Obviously, when you are a barrister you have to be able to argue both sides of any situation depending on who your client is. The same lawyer employed by Nicky Hager, who published for personal gain private and personal information hacked from Whaleoil, yesterday declared that National’s budget leaks
By Raymond F Peters Patriot Realm In 1942, my wife’s uncle was a metallurgist in Papua New Guinea. At the height of WW2, he made do and mended in the jungles of one of the hotbeds of the conflict. Unable to serve in the war due to being deaf
ACT leader David Seymour has summed up PM Jacinda Ardern as someone whose Bachelor of Communication Studies degree taught her to change people’s perception of reality rather than reality itself It is hard to disagree with him given that she led Labour to victory on the exact same policies
Dear Princess Jacinda I caught you on the covers of many magazines while I was buying my groceries. I couldn’t afford to purchase the magazines as being a small business owner things are tight. I saw you took a quick trip to Paris to talk to others about the
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Well, it has arrived. The world’s first Wellbeing Budget. The groundbreaking budget format that was supposed to have the world sit up and take notice. I am reeling with the uniqueness and diversity of it all. No, I’m not. I’m completely underwhelmed. First, the basics. * $1.9
Oops. The faces on the government’s Wellbeing budget had to move to Australia to make ends meet. Freeman isn’t such a great choice to be the face promoting today’s Budget – given she no longer lives in this country. […] she had worked hard to get into the acting
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When Oscar Wilde observed that “the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience”, he was specifically talking about America. But that was in 1882. Today, to borrow Le Monde’s famous headline, “we are all American” – at least, judging by
“Hate crime” and “hate speech” are big news these days for the political left, along with their legacy-media fluffers and Silicon Valley overlords. Jacinda Ardern flies to the other side of the world – climate “emergency” notwithstanding – to agree with Emmanuel Macron and Jack Dorsey that “hate speech” is, like, really,
That is the effective conclusion from a Newshub exclusive interview with a Treasury insider. Technology provided a public window to the information and Hooton’s tweet from the day before appears to be absolutely accurate. Treasury and GCSB’s National Cyber Security Centre were working on establishing the facts of
David Cumin Free Speech Coalition Is calling a politician the name of a fairy tale character worthy of Police action? Over the weekend, the head of a Rotorua ratepayers’ association was accused of “age, gender, and race-based hate speech” after he published a Facebook post stating: “Beware the charismatic pitch
Trademe has bowed to activist pressure and has removed T-shirts that say that it is okay to be white. Apparently, it is not okay to be white because activists have decided that the slogan is linked to White supremacy. Why? Because they say so that’s why. Now everyone, EXCEPT
They really are a dysfunctional bunch, the NZ First led Coalition of Losers. The left hand has no idea what the right extreme left hand is doing or saying. After fighting through the melee of rent-a-crowd idiots gluing themselves to door handles etc, Parker got into the conference and said
I heard Stuart Nash on the radio on Wednesday morning, screaming ‘dirty politics’ over the leak of the budget document. Here we go again. Anything Labour doesn’t like these days is ‘dirty politics’. It is becoming a hackneyed phrase. Funnily enough, we have not heard anything from Nicky Hager
