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75-Year-Old Woman Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Praying

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Paulette Harlow, 75, was arrested back in 2020 after praying outside of a Washington D.C. abortion clinic. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Harlow on May 31, deciding that she deserves to sit in jail for two full years. Harlow, visited the Washington Surgi-clinic with a group

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Why the Term ‘Non-Maori’ Is Unhelpful

Fiona Mackenzie Racial separatists in New Zealand have become significantly more strident of late, demanding undemocratic power and funding, along with greater control over anyone identifying as Maori. It all sounds scarily similar to the unhinged ranting of many of the world’s destructive despots. With this perilous state in

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Welcome to Elections 101
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Welcome to Elections 101

Good morning everybody, and welcome to Elections 101. In today’s exercise, we’ll look at a very close electoral race, very close indeed. So close that after the counting of 25,123 valid returns the winning candidate’s majority was a razor-thin 42 votes. This occurred during the 2023

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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man
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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man

John Porter “Cometh the hour, cometh the man.” Generally meaning that leadership, even of one’s self, is absent and desperately needed in a time of greatest necessity, so someone is forced to step up whether they seem capable or not. Prime Minister Luxon I think your hour has cometh!

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Get Rid of Maori Wards and Electorates

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com The Coalition Agreements which the National Party reached with the ACT and New Zealand First parties oblige the new Government to “restore the right to local referendum on

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If TVNZ Was a Dog We’d Put It Down
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If TVNZ Was a Dog We’d Put It Down

TVNZ is a financial cot case and is expected to lose $33 million this financial year. If it was a dog we’d take a shovel and a gun and put it out of its misery. TVNZ is expecting a financial loss of up to $33 million this financial year

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Yes, Donald Trump Has a Point About Political Prosecution
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Yes, Donald Trump Has a Point About Political Prosecution

Ronald Sievert Senior Lecturer in Government, Texas A&M University The facts and the law behind New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s successful prosecution of Donald Trump could be argued at length. But as a government prosecutor for thirty years, I have been most interested in the ethics

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Pets Will Be Better Protected Than Children in the UK
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Pets Will Be Better Protected Than Children in the UK

Ann Farmer Ann Farmer writes from the United Kingdom. mercatornet.com Britain is in a political frenzy after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that a snap general election will take place on July 4. This means that some of his government’s bills will lapse before becoming law, including a

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Trump Vows to Fight on despite Conviction

Trump Vows to Fight on despite Conviction

Philip Wegmann realclearwire.com Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday, a New York jury brought the country to an unprecedented brink by finding Donald Trump guilty of financial fraud, making the former president a convicted felon for now (unless or until the conviction is overturned on appeal) and making

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Is Kiri Tamihere-Waititi’s Expletive-Laden Video a National Security Threat?
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Is Kiri Tamihere-Waititi’s Expletive-Laden Video a National Security Threat?

Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com OPINION: It is possible that security agencies will be closely monitoring Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, the wife of Maori Party Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi. Her expletive-laden social media

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Significance of May 31 in South Africa’s History

Dr Duncan du Bois Although the tally of votes had not been finalised, the situation on May 31 showed clearly that South Africa is on the cusp of political change. In that respect it is significant how May 31 has marked turning points in our history. On May 31, 1844

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Te Pati Maori’s Integrity Under the Microscope

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com Illegal and corrupt practices are alleged to have occurred in the way that Te Pati Maori has been running election campaigns, abusing their use of state-funded processes. Allegations revealed Saturday about the way the party colluded with a South Auckland marae and John Tamihere’s

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Breaking All the Rules
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Breaking All the Rules

It’s an unfortunate sign of the times that public broadcaster RNZ ‘News’ gave significant editorial space for the acting head of a governmental organisation to openly criticise the Government with a politically skewed and misconstrued rant the day after the budget announcements. This was made worse when the individual,

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How Social Engineers Put Auckland City on Life Support

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Beware of ministers and mayors with simple solutions to any city’s problems! A series of snake-oil salesmen have

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Chloe, Sweetie, Your Pants Are on Fire
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Chloe, Sweetie, Your Pants Are on Fire

Chloe Swarbrick is getting the soft-soap treatment from legacy media again. It seems that the media aren’t interested in the ongoing scandals involving the Green Party and instead are enabling them with hagiographic interviews. When Chlöe Swarbrick first won a seat in Parliament at 23 years old, she was

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