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Political Weasels: What to Look For

Political Weasels: What to Look For

Information Satire Being a keen observer of the political classes I’ve been asked to identify and name some of the fauna in the zoo. Today we will look at identifying various types of Political Mustelids (Weasels). The Giant Socialist Weasel (Mustela giganta socialistii) – Groups of these weasels are called

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What Is the Government’s COVID Strategy?

What Is the Government’s COVID Strategy?

Talk from the Prime Minister that Auckland could move to Alert Level 2 next week but keep its boundary highlights the Government’s lack of strategy underpinning the current lockdown, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Today in Parliament the Prime Minister continued to maintain that she hopes to

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Time for the Govt to Listen on Three Waters

Simon Court ACT Local Government spokesperson It is critical that New Zealanders have access to safe drinking water and high-quality infrastructure for storm and wastewater. Currently, the system is not up to scratch, but the Government’s proposed reforms simply miss the mark. Nanaia Mahuta claims councils have failed

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Non-essential (Parliamentary) Business

Non-essential (Parliamentary) Business

Chris Penk First published by The BFD 1st July 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Non-essential (Parliamentary) business Emergency powers were invoked by the government, giving itself the ability to amend laws and take actions

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Government proposes new Covid-19 powers in preparation for future pandemic restrictions […] urgently introduced to Parliament by Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins on Wednesday evening. […]The Covid-19 Response (Management Measures) Legislation Bill would tweak local government laws to allow for more flexibility in delaying elections, as well as

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Mystery Advisor Seen Leaving Beehive

Mystery Advisor Seen Leaving Beehive

John Black stuffednz.net Information Satire Rumours abounded yesterday that the figure seen leaving the PM’s offices late last night was none other than Kim Jong-un, the ‘Supreme Leader’ of North Korea. Sid Dingle, a nightshift cleaner at the Beehive, told STUFFED that he had seen evidence of

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Govt Adopts National’s COVID Contribution Policy
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Govt Adopts National’s COVID Contribution Policy

Today’s announcement from the Government is a retreat from its earlier position to drastically limit immigration to now adopting National’s Covid Contribution policy, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “After wasting four years Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi has finally realised that with the tightest labour market in

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Questions You Can Ask Claire Charters on ZB  about He Puapua
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Questions You Can Ask Claire Charters on ZB about He Puapua

I have prepared some relevant questions to ask He Puapua author Claire Charters on NewstalkZB tomorrow morning. Freedom Alert Keep Tomorrow Morning Free The author of He Puapua is a guest on NewstalkZB tomorrow morning. Are you prepared and ready for the Friday, 01 October morning interview by NewstalkZB of

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote

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Stand up for Your Rights
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Stand up for Your Rights

Voices for Freedom voicesforfreedom.co.nz Well that saying when the going get’s tough the tough get going seems never more apt. This is the time we all need to dig deep and stand up for ourselves and our children. In this article, we have links to an employment

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Totalitarian Governments Didn’t Start off That Way

Totalitarian Governments Didn’t Start off That Way

Grant Finch It’s difficult, impossible even, to objectively look back at the totalitarian governments of the last century. From our vantage, we only see the evil and inhuman systems they became and presume they always were. But were they intended to be as abusive as they became? In reference

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Challenge the Super Fund’s Hypocrisy
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Challenge the Super Fund’s Hypocrisy

IINZ A spokesperson for the Guardians responded to criticism of their investment in some Chinese companies complicit in gross human rights violations by declaring “If we exited every company facing conduct concerns, all we’d achieve is to sell our stock to someone who cares less about these issues and

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Government Wants Power to Delay Local Elections through 2023
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Government Wants Power to Delay Local Elections through 2023

The Government must urgently explain why it wants to give itself the power to delay next year’s local body elections limitless times through to 2023, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop and Local Government spokesperson Christopher Luxon say. “The Government is currently able to adjourn a local

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‘Dirty Anti-vaxxers – Holding Us to Ransom’

‘Dirty Anti-vaxxers – Holding Us to Ransom’

Mirabelle Lane The media and the government are starting to put the screws on the unvaccinated. In some channels, you, the gullible “vaccine hesitant” are given the less kind label: “anti-vaxxer” – even if you have been diligently getting poked with every shot on offer since you popped out. Once

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We Need Grown-Ups in Charge

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com John Key’s common-sense criticism of the one trick pony Government’s lockdowns deservedly received wide-spread support. But a couple of exceptions stood out. First, came the social media infantile demand for Key to advise how many Covid deaths he would trade for

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