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The Day the Truth Died
The journalist that risked everything to break the Edward Snowden story, Glenn Greenwald, has just resigned from the United States news outlet The Intercept. This is astonishing because he founded The Intercept after the challenges of getting Snowden’s message out into the public eye. The sole purpose of The
“Some People Did Something”
Why Muslims don’t address the possibility, however remote, of Muslim extremists infiltrating NZ mosques surprises me. Overseas terrorism does not allay fears, it inflames them. NZ Muslim organisations should be distancing themselves and providing reassurance instead of treating public fear as a personal insult and lobbying for “hate speech”
Twitter Launches Unprecedented Censorship of Trump Tweet Critical of Mail-in Votes
Alexander Hall papundits.wordpress.com Alexander Hall contributes posts at the NewsBusters site, and he is a staff writer for MRC TechWatch. Twitter has “fact-checked” the president’s tweets and put them behind filters before, but now users themselves are blocked from showing their approval. Twitter censored President Donald Trump’
Daily News Roundup – 30 October 2020
New Labour Government Thomas Manch (Stuff): A Cabinet to fill: Who will take the top jobs in the new Labour Government? Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s line on the Greens – and the Cabinet Minister she must remove (paywalled) Maori TV: Maori-Labour caucus will get top cabinet jobs – political analyst
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Face of the Day
Warning – contains graphic content The toddler found dead in the estuary at Little Waihi had been subjected to at least eight – and maybe as many as 20 – blows to the head before being left to drown. That is according to forensic pathologist Dr Rexson Tse, who was giving evidence at
Massive! Tucker Carlson, Full Interview with Tony Bobulinksi
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Disinformation by Popular Demand
Jonathan Turley ronpaulinstitute.org This week, former Vice President Joe Biden was again insisting that the scandal involving Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation despite the direct refutation of that claim by the FBI. No mainstream reporter bothered to ask the simple question of whether this was his son’
Korero from the Throne
Information Satire Morena, ka pai; Aotearoa, this is your Kuini, and this is important korero, so please take notice. Last week our island nation was compared unfavourably with another island nation in our response to the great taniwha COVID-19. This is unacceptable, I am beyond reach of criticism due both
Daily News Roundup – 29 October 2020
National Party Claire Trevett (Herald): The case for Judith Collins to make Deputy Shane Reti and put Simon Bridges in finance (paywalled) John Bishop (Stuff): National needs new values to rebuild Henry Cooke (Stuff): Gerry Brownlee’s deputy leadership in trouble ahead of confidence vote Zane Small (Newshub): National MPs
Face of the Day
French Ambassador After Islamist Beheading: “France is a Muslim Country” Responding to the beheading of a school teacher by an Islamist in Paris, French ambassador to Sweden Etienne de Gonneville told broadcaster SVT, “France is a Muslim country.” Yes, really. Samuel Paty was decapitated by an 18-year-old Chechen jihadist in
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Letter from the North
The position just gets madder and madder. The latest revised guidance from the Welsh government now states that it is not permissible to buy a non-essential item unless it is essential to buy a non-essential item. They still haven’t produced a list of non-essential items but say it is
Daily News Roundup – 28 October 2020
Greens and coalition negotiations John Armstrong (1News): Don’t mistake Ardern’s talks with Green Party for kindness Richard Harman (Politik): Greens’ high stakes game carries a big risk Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour and the Greens: an inevitable embrace (paywalled) Phil Taylor (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern holds all the cards but