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PayPal Demands ID, Calls Voter ID ‘Racist’

PayPal Demands ID, Calls Voter ID ‘Racist’

The stupidity and duplicity over voter ID laws in the US just keeps getting more hypocritical and idiotic. What would you call people who think that black people are too dumb to find their local DMV or use the internet, yet screech that others are racist? And what would you

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More Bombs in Yangon

More Bombs in Yangon

7th April 2021 A series of explosions were recorded across Yangon today, and the blames is being laid at the feet of the protesters. The other thought is that it could have been the Military who will now use it as a pretext for even tougher clampdowns and violence. The

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Rolling Tax Relief for Kiwis under New Legislation
NZ

Rolling Tax Relief for Kiwis under New Legislation

National is committed to letting Kiwis keep more of what they earn and has proposed new legislation that will end tax hikes by stealth, Tauranga MP Simon Bridges says. Mr Bridges’ Income Tax (Adjustment of Taxable Income Ranges) Amendment Bill, drawn from the Member’s Ballot today, will require tax

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Law

Higher Lawmaking Standards Well Overdue

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Regulatory Standards Bill, drawn from the members’ bill ballot today, is a long overdue addition to New Zealand’s constitutional framework,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The first attempt to pass a similar bill was the introduction of the Regulatory Responsibility Bill

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The Most Normal Place in the World

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it,

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Mental Health Wait Times Worsen across DHBs

Mental Health Wait Times Worsen across DHBs

Ballooning wait times for children and adolescents trying to access mental health services should be of serious concern to us all, National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “Wait times have increased in 17 of the 18 DHBs that provided data since Labour’s election in 2017 with some

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The Faces of Anti-Asian Hate

The Faces of Anti-Asian Hate

Remember #StopAsianHate? The hashtag trended on Twitter for days, in concert with a frenzied campaign by the mainstream media. It all reached a crescendo when a satisfactorily white shooter killed eight people, six of whom were Asian, at “massage parlors” in Atlanta. Never mind that the shooter’s stated motive

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Government Needs to Move Faster on Pacific Bubble

Government Needs to Move Faster on Pacific Bubble

National supports the call by Hawke’s Bay orchardists and businesses that are reliant on seasonal work to open a travel bubble with the Pacific Islands, Horticulture spokesperson David Bennett says. “Growers and processors have good reason to be frustrated at the Government for not acting fast enough. This frustration

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Government Rejects Greater Transparency for ACC

Government Rejects Greater Transparency for ACC

Labour is putting politics ahead of transparency in voting down a law change last night to increase transparency in ACC decision-making for those dealing with re-injury claims, National’s ACC spokesperson Simon Watts says. “The Accident Compensation (Notice of Decisions) Amendment Bill broadens employers’ rights to apply for

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NZ

A Ratepayer Funded Junket

Paul C We are again at the time of the year when councillors (and staff) are asking to attend the Local Government New Zealand Inc. conference which is to be held this year at Blenheim. The group’s proposed 2020 conference was cancelled because of the countrywide lockdown. In 2002

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Boris Johnson’s ‘Discriminatory’ Vaccine Passport Plan in Trouble as Labour and Tory Rebels Unite in Opposition

Boris Johnson’s ‘Discriminatory’ Vaccine Passport Plan in Trouble as Labour and Tory Rebels Unite in Opposition

rt.com Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a significant defeat in the House of Commons after the Labour Party warned it will join Conservative Party rebels to oppose “discriminatory” plans to introduce Covid vaccine passports. The UK government is facing mounting opposition from backbench MPs and members of the Labour

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Education and New Zealand’s Future

Education and New Zealand’s Future

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Nothing matters more for the future of New Zealand than educating our children. As part of the globalised world we have contributed towards the common good and wasted opportunities in about equal measure. Unless we now retreat to the small, isolated South Sea islands that the

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Letters to Jacinda

Letters to Jacinda

A letter from Lucy: We’ve set up an email address so you too can submit letters to the Prime Minister. We will format your letter in a suitable child-like font, perhaps make it look like crayon, so she will read it, then we will publish it and send

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