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OODA Loops and Media Bias

OODA Loops and Media Bias

Republished with Permission Original article by Nathan Smith at the NZ Initiative As US military strategist John Boyd said about his “OODA loop” theory (observe, orient, decide, act), if one’s orientation is out by just a millimetre, the entire strategy fails. A new site called mediabias.co.nz measures

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Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics Podcast transcript by Cam Slater that was first published  26th October 2020. Insight: Politics Podcast with Cam Slater – Episode 28 Welcome to

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Sheriff Collins’s Annus Horribilis

Sheriff Collins’s Annus Horribilis

Information Satire I will have to revert to my Latin, it’s been an Annus Horribilis. A phrase meaning “horrible year.”  The Queen used it to describe her own year in 1992. I got the “hospital pass from hell” when Todd Muller bailed out after 53 days. But now it’

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Attacking Free Speech

Attacking Free Speech

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com For the first time since MMP was introduced in 1996, New Zealand voters have given a single political party the absolute power to govern alone. Whether Labour decides to exercise that authority or share their mandate with the Greens, remains to be seen. Whatever arrangement

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A FREE Taste of Insight: Politics Podcast Episode 27

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Once upon a time, all customers expected from Yellow was their advertising expertise. A bemused ex Yellow customer sent us this screenshot from Yellow’s latest newsletter to their customers. If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.

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Farmers Need Clarity on Freshwater Rules
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Farmers Need Clarity on Freshwater Rules

ACT Party “The Government must immediately provide clarity to farmers about the enforcement of its new freshwater rules,” says ACT’s Primary Industries Spokesperson Mark Cameron. “The new rules require all paddocks to be resown by 1 October or 1 November in Otago and Southland. “That’s completely unrealistic given

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Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by Stephen Berry that was first published 23rd October 2020. The Green Party Surprised Us All One of the basic disclaimers

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March to More Lunacy

March to More Lunacy

Every time the Greens bring in new MPs, they are scarier than the last lot. For the last three years, we have been ruing the fact that the Green party saw fit to bring in an anti-Christian, anti-Semitic communist by the name of Golriz Ghahmaran. But Golriz seems

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Time to Abolish Human Rights Commission

Time to Abolish Human Rights Commission

ACT Party “The Human Rights Commission’s left-wing manifesto is clear evidence that the organisation must be abolished,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Commission is a hard-left organisation masquerading as a government department. “Its new manifesto calls for a new hate speech law, a living wage, raising

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