Never having heard of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull or her alter-ego ‘The Posie Parker’ before objections were raised about her impending visit here, I tried to get a handle on what the fuss was about. The first thing I learned was: there is no balance in coverage of her ‘Let Women Speak’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Congratulations to Immigration Minister Michael Wood for refusing to ban British anti-trans activist Posie Parker speaking in New Zealand. The utterly fraudulent argument proffered by diverse sexually confused groups for the ban was that Parker’s presence would cause riots. And the reason they would
This weekend groups of women will meet in Wellington and Auckland to discuss a topic one would assume would be welcome in 2023: women’s rights. As has always been the case in the feminist movement, the groups will be disproportionately made up of mothers and lesbians; the kind of
Justin Hart brownstone.org Justin Hart is an executive consultant with over 25 years experience creating data-driven solutions for Fortune 500 companies and Presidential campaigns alike. Mr. Hart is the Chief Data Analyst and founder of RationalGround.com which helps companies, public policy officials, and even parents gauge the impact
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MP for Kaikoura stuartsmith.national.org.nz It is undeniable that we are living in a fascinating era. Unfortunately, there are those who are emulating Joseph Goebbels, the former Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, under Hitler’s regime. Goebbels worked to create a totalitarian society in which the state
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk MPs have voted against an amendment that was introduced by a group of MPs led by Andrew Lewer MP to lessen the negative impacts of the buffer zone clause that was added to the Public Order Bill. The Public Order Bill includes a
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk The day before MPs vote on whether to introduce nationwide censorship zones, a woman has been arrested for praying silently outside a closed abortion clinic just three weeks after she was acquitted on similar charges. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life volunteer, was arrested in
As I reported some months ago, ThoughtCrime is officially an offense in Ingsoc, now. To that, we can now add that Christianity is an “offense”. Never mind if spittle-flecked men in dresses chant that they want to “Kill TERFs” (i.e., women). Thousands of Muslims can threaten to “behead those
Back when I were a young’un, there was a Melbourne newspaper of some notoriety, Truth. Not unlike it’s late NZ cousin, Truth specialised in salacious sensationalism that would make a Street of Shame hack blush. In its heyday in the 50s and 60s Truth also ran a good
Elijah Gullett fee.org Online free speech has been under fire from Congress, past presidents, and pundits from both sides of the political aisle. Now, it faces a new threat: the Supreme Court. Two upcoming Supreme Court cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, will present a significant challenge
As we’ve shown in previous posts in this series, the New Zealand government’s most efficient – and secretive – response to Covid was not lockdowns or vaccination, but the establishment of a panopticon apparatus of spying and information control. This Orwellian Ministry of Truth starts at the PM’s office
So far, we’ve established that, firstly, the New Zealand government has, with breathtaking speed and stealth, established an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” which is not only spying on Kiwis with breathtaking thoroughness, but weaponising the entirety of New Zealand’s civil society as tentacles of state propaganda. We’ve
In the first part of this series, we reported how an OIA request had led to the release of two government documents has uncovered a staggering, Orwellian project of domestic spying and information control. What the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s briefing, Strengthening New Zealand’s Resilience to
It’s been an interesting week in free speech versus cancel culture, here in Australia. While three separate incidents each garnered plenty of attention on their own, few people seem to have joined the dots and considered what they collectively mean for free speech. The clearest issue that two of
