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When the Disinformation Is From the Left
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with 30 years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. He now writes regularly for the Democracy Project, producing his column “From the Left”. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz DISINFORMATION has been part and parcel of
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I Watched the Whole Thing. I Wish I Hadn’t.
Over the weekend I was sent a video from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It outlined in two short, yet horrifying minutes some of the appalling war crimes and atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on innocent civilians of Israel in the border areas around the Gaza Strip. I was also
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View from Your Window
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Tech Talk: Easy Update
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
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‘Fairness’ Deals New Zealand a Bad Hand
Jim Cable To most Kiwis, “fairness” is a concept deeply rooted in our psyches. But as an ideal it’s been long abused by exploitative individuals who’ve relentlessly perverted it. Consider how often we, as a nation, have uniformly upheld or endorsed all manner of palpable nonsense from the
Take the People With You
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change Albert Einstein Change is what the country wanted, and change it did, leaving a shell-shocked Labour Party wondering just what had happened. A bolt from the blue – literally. But they knew it was coming, they just couldn’t bring themselves
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