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New Zealanders Getting the Mushroom Treatment on Vaccinations

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “How astonishing that the Australian Health Minister finds himself having to defend his Government having only vaccinated 670,000 Australians when New Zealand has managed less than 10 per cent of that number,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This difference between Australia and New

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Professor White Knight to the Rescue!

Professor White Knight to the Rescue!

It’s been said that Tolkien’s ents are a gentle poke at the academic circles of Oxford and Cambridge with which he was so familiar: a cloistered bunch of fussy old bachelors endlessly ruminating. It might have been thought that that particular academic milieu was long past. But, reading

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1984 Is Now Prolos bottle on brown surface

Orwell, Atheism, and Totalitarianism

Carson Holloway mercatornet.com Carson Holloway is a professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), where he has taught since 2002. He received a B.A. In political science from the University of Northern Iowa in 1991 and a Ph.D. In political science from Northern

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Want Jacinda to Read Your Letter?

Want Jacinda to Read Your Letter?

The Taxpayers’ Union have noticed that the only way to get the Prime Minister to do anything is to get a child to write to her. We agree and have taken on a new volunteer to help our readers to get their concerns read by the Prime Minister. Send your

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Derek Chauvin Is the White Tom Robinson

Derek Chauvin Is the White Tom Robinson

Once upon a time, all it took was a white woman in the US crying “rape” at a black man and it was time fer a good ol’ lynchin’. Nowadays, all it takes is a black criminal to whine, “I can’t breathe”, and the lynching begins. Of course, the

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Colorado’s Cowboys Put Their Meat In

Colorado’s Cowboys Put Their Meat In

As I reported recently, Nebraskans did not take kindly to neighbouring state, Colorado, declaring a “MeatOut Day”. After all, Nebraska is the largest beef-producing state in the union. But, still – Colorado? No meat? I don’t know about you, but when I think of Colorado, I think of the

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Government Must Focus on Getting Kiwis into Jobs
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Government Must Focus on Getting Kiwis into Jobs

Changes to benefit abatement thresholds aren’t enough to help struggling Kiwis get ahead, there needs to be a greater focus on supporting our beneficiaries into jobs, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says. “There are still more than 200,000 people on Jobseeker Support who don’t have

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The Wait Is Over

The Wait Is Over

Eric Davies The wait, a record 64 days, the longest in 100 years, for former Vice-President Biden to get out of bed and stand in front of a podium, then make words with his mouth that other people have put in there, has finally come and gone.  Biden shuffled

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Dagon Burns

Dagon Burns

31st March 2021 The protests and the slaughter continues. The type of weapons being deployed escalates as seen in the video clip below. Taken in South Dagon, Yangon, a poor suburb. In further news today, the CPRH (various representatives of the NLD and other elected personnel) rescinded the 2008 constitution

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Labour’s Housing Bombshell

Labour’s Housing Bombshell

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last week’s housing announcement was a shocking indictment of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government. Without taking official advice and without assessing the economic and social costs of their actions, they have made fundamental changes to the residential property investment market and turned back the

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Kainga Ora to Build 11.5 Tower Blocks at Ihumatao

Kainga Ora to Build 11.5 Tower Blocks at Ihumatao

Kainga Ora has announced that it is commissioning 11.5 tower blocks to be built on recently liberated land at Ihumatao. The development will use modular homes, meaning each one-bedroom apartment will consist of a single factory-built module or ‘pod’ manufactured off-site. Kainga Ora General Manager Construction

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Letters to Jacinda

Letters to Jacinda

A letter from Harley: 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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Daily News Roundup – 1 April 2021

Daily News Roundup – 1 April 2021

Housing crisis John Bishop (Stuff): Are speculators really the problem? Isn’t it the lack of houses? Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): Here’s why rental controls aren’t the answer Hannah Kronast (Newshub): Government could implement rental hike caps if necessary but it’s unlikely to be anytime soon – expert Brian

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