The first article on the right was from a press release and it was rewritten within hours. The re-written article is on the left and the original article is on the right. Guest writer Justin Knight wrote an article about this yesterday, “How Free is Our Press Really? You
Justice Minister Andrew Little declared back in March that a review of New Zealand’s hate speech law was in its final stages. It is only the COVID-19 outbreak which has prevented it from being enacted. In order to usher in any new religious blasphemy legislation the old must
The Babylon Bee recently published a satirical article, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party had disbanded its propaganda team, “as American media doing their job for them”. In a case of life-imitating-satire, an Australian university is doing Beijing’s dirty work for them: harassing and persecuting a student
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We all have different ways of protesting when something upsets us. Some of us tell the person where to go verbally, some start a petition, some silently ignore rules they see as dumb, and some just start writing for an online news and views sites ;0) Some people though are
Nothing demonstrates the success of the Marxists’ Long March through the institutions perhaps quite so much as the decline of respect for freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the key principle of the Enlightenment. It was so important to the enlightened Founding Fathers of the United States that they
P.J. Gladnick papundits.wordpress.com A note to Atlantic magazine: George Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t meant to be a how-to guide… A couple of people writing at The Atlantic magazine see a fantastic silver lining in the current coronavirus outbreak. Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods see
I’m no fan of actors, musicians, sports stars and other ‘celebrities’ spouting garbage opinions on things they mostly know absolutely nothing about. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t spout their opinions – they have every bit as much right to spout garbage opinions as the rest of
Dr Michael Jackson covidplanb.co.nz Dr Michael Jackson is a postdoctoral researcher at Victoria University of Wellington. As a scientist, I am trained to think critically, to evaluate evidence, and ask questions – lots and lots of questions. That’s my job. In March 2020 the World Health Organization predicted
In a chilling scene in Chernobyl, soldiers tasked with shooting animals in the exclusion zone pause to take note of a communist propaganda banner drooping from a deserted building. “Our goal is the happiness of all mankind,” they read. They derisively remark on how happy they are – and go back
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Below is a TV commercial designed to promote the New Zealand Police as a force for good that is protecting the public by ‘shooting-down’ the COVID-19 virus. The advertisement shows a scene based on the spaghetti western ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’
Dr Grant Morris is Associate Professor in Law, Victoria University of Wellington. covidplanb.co.nz New Zealand has changed dramatically in response to COVID-19. Fundamental rights and liberties have been curtailed to assist in suppressing the virus. From a legal history perspective, this is similar to what New Zealand
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As I’ve written several times before, I may not agree with Bill Maher about much, but I absolutely respect his integrity. Because, unlike too many so-called ‘liberals’, Maher will always apply his principles with consistency and honesty. Put simply, Maher plays the principle, not the side. Maher trenchantly
As the Wuhan virus swept the world, much attention was drawn to Dean Koontz’s 1981 Novel, The Eyes of Darkness, which focuses on a man-made virus breaking loose from none other than Wuhan. Koontz himself has downplayed his alleged prophetic powers, stating that it was mere happenstance that
