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Is There a Long-Term Solution for Israel?
The Ponderer This article is explicitly intended as a reply/followup to Dr Lion Red’s excellent article moving from that balanced view of history to analyse the present and imagine possible futures. There has been a long, complicated and bloody history bringing Israel / Palestine to where it is now.
Does Learning Te Reo Make You Virtuous?
bassettbrashandhide.com A week before election day, TVNZ’s John Campbell went to a polling station in Otara, South Auckland, to lie in wait for voters. When he encountered a young Maori woman who was about to vote for the first time, his trademark gushiness was unleashed: “Mere is nineteen.
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Maybe Don’t Be Petty Tyrants Next Time
Have a wee thought for Chris Hipkins, who seems to be shedding a few tears as he comes to grip with being the feather duster after six years of thinking he was the rooster. Apparently, it’s ‘pretty tough’ to lose their cushy jobs after the voters caned them in
BFD November 2023 Political Poll
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Hamas Supporters Should Not Be Tolerated
Brian Tamaki This is yet another history-defining moment we are living in. Will you be on the right side of history? I strongly believe New Zealand has not gone far enough in condemning the actions of Hamas. Hamas supporters and sympathisers should not be tolerated in New Zealand. I
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NZ Shown up by Dagestan
As Hemingway’s character Mike Campbell observes, in The Sun Also Rises, he went bankrupt “Two ways… Gradually and then suddenly.” The world has slid into a poisonous eruption of naked anti-Semitism in similar fashion: gradually and then suddenly. Anti-Semitism, fashionably disguised as “pro-Palestinian”, has been gradually
View from Your Window
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Fighting for Financial Freedom
Simon Angelo WealthMorning.com This article is editorial content. It is the author’s personal opinion and commentary. It is general in nature and should not be construed as any financial or investment advice. ‘A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.’ Edward R. Murrow Two documentary films
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A NZ School Promoting Transgenderism to Children
We are a group of parents with children at Mellons Bay School. In Term 3 2023, Mellons Bay School approved their “Inclusive Education” Policy which will require everyone to use preferred pronouns for transgender staff and students. When a parent wrote to ask, “Will children be disciplined for not using