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The Abuse of Power

The Abuse of Power

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com On election night, Jacinda Ardern promised to govern for all New Zealanders. Yet here she is, barely three months later, using Parliamentary urgency to crush a fundamental democratic right of New Zealanders. Not only that – she is misleading the country about the reasons for the

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Daily News Roundup – 10 February 2021

Daily News Roundup – 10 February 2021

Parliament’s tie-wearing rules Rawiri Waititi (Herald): It’s not about a tie – it’s about Pakeha power Amelia Wade (Herald): Tiki vs tie: Parliament neck-tie stoush soon to be tied-up Henry Cooke (Stuff): Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi kicked out of House for refusal to

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Mass Manipulation – How It Works

Robert Cialdini Peter Koenig thesaker.is Have you ever wondered how a herd of sheep is driven to their slaughterhouse? Manipulation of minds is a well-studied science, has been applied already for centuries, but is getting ever more sophisticated. For example, the many poignant assertions, Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers Minister

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You Can’t Have Your Yuan and Your Sanctimony, Too

You Can’t Have Your Yuan and Your Sanctimony, Too

Call me crazy, but I’m not exactly inclined to take seriously lectures on business ethics from someone who makes billions from a genocidal communist regime. Being subjected to pontifications on slavery from someone who cheerfully deals with one of the most notorious slave-owning regimes on the planet just,

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Craig Kelly Pilloried for Telling the Truth

Craig Kelly Pilloried for Telling the Truth

It’s as predictable as climate alarmism in summer: yet another pile-on of a conservative heretic by the usual deranged mob of leftist politicians and their journalist bootlickers – and yet another instance of “Scotty from Marketing” gutlessly ditching one of his own to try and “get ahead of the

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Zero Emissions

Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic

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Heartlanders Vent as the Hits Keep Coming

Heartlanders Vent as the Hits Keep Coming

Sarah Cowgill libertynation.com National Columnist at LibertyNation.com. Sarah has been a writer in the political and corporate worlds for over 25 years. As a sought-after speech writer, her clients included CEOs, U.S. Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and even a Vice President. She’s worked as Contributing Editor

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Jacinda Plays Maori for Fools

Jacinda Plays Maori for Fools

Some Maori are so busy spending time prioritising things that in this day and age make no practical difference to their everyday lives they are getting themselves left further and further behind. The sort of gains they are making under Jacinda are ones that might have a feel-good factor

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Law

The Crisis of Rushed Lawmaking

ACT Party The Government will rush through legislation so that citizens cannot petition against Councils establishing Maori wards. Besides the policy itself, the Government’s habit of rushed lawmaking is becoming its own problem. We don’t live in a dictatorship. Parliamentary democracy gives each adult the right to elect

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Sick Leave Bribe Had Nothing to Do with COVID-19

Sick Leave Bribe Had Nothing to Do with COVID-19

ACT Party “The Government’s new Covid-19 payment allowing workers to isolate at home is a welcome development,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT said last year that the Government should consider something similar. It is important that workers isolate for the whole country, and it is unfair an

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