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Tech Talk: The App Google Doesn’t Want You to Know About?
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Tech Talk: The App Google Doesn’t Want You to Know About?

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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Interrupt Transmission

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Feel the Kindness While You Sleep in Your Cars
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Feel the Kindness While You Sleep in Your Cars

So, how’d that “Wellbeing Budget” work out for you, New Zealand… oops, ‘Aotearoa’? Are you all feeling the kindness, yet? Is the Gross Domestic Happiness keeping you warm, this winter? Especially those of you sleeping in your cars? Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has slammed the

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Ivermectin, a Taste of What May Be to Come

Ivermectin, a Taste of What May Be to Come

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion The story of Ivermectin in New Zealand and the world presents a dark foreboding of what may be to come in medicine – unless we resist the algorithms of the industrial-pharma complex and turn back to the meaning of

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This Is Going to Hurt Me Far More than You

This Is Going to Hurt Me Far More than You

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Charity, Politics, and the Great Commission
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Charity, Politics, and the Great Commission

Information Opinion Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz You can follow Dieuwe de Boer on Telegram or Twitter. Introduction There was a line that I liked years ago: “Politics is downstream of culture.” It sounds simple and nice. But it’s wrong and dangerous. Law, power, and politics all have a

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National Need to Clean Out Their Ears
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National Need to Clean Out Their Ears

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Two recent public opinion polls

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Leo’s Quit, Can Someone Tell Viv Beck to Quit Too, Please, Now

Yesterday we were treated to a small blessing: Leo Molloy quitting the Auckland mayoralty race after a dreadful poll that saw him slump to third place behind Efeso Collins and Wayne Brown. Now, if only someone would take Viv Beck aside and tell her to quit as well. Leading Auckland

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The Futility of Te Reo Maori

The Futility of Te Reo Maori

Information Opinion You can bet your tattoo, that these peddlers of stone-age communications are devising a way to force bi-lingual labelling here in New Zealand. Similar to the nonsense that Canada has enforced since the early 1980s. English/French labelling regulations. If you enjoyed this article please share

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Disqus Hints and Tips

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If you want to update your credit card details click here. **To select Stripe as your payment platform select credit/debit card To upgrade or change your membership click here. You can easily upgrade between membership levels at any time by visiting your account page. When upgrading your membership, it

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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz
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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz

Test your trivia knowledge – Select from seven subject categories. General knowledge, Dictionary, Entertainment, History, Food & Drink, Geography, Science & Nature. To Enjoy Our Other Puzzles Become a Bronze Member

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Face of the Day

Leo Molloy has quit the race to become Auckland’s next mayor, conceding: “I cannot win”. […] “I thank my team for their hard work, and of course my sponsors. We did our best, but it wasn’t quite enough. “I won’t be endorsing another mayoral candidate just yet, but

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