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When even Mexico’s president is going in to bat for Donald Trump, you know that Facebook has royally screwed up. Facebook joined the big tech pile-on to crush free speech and un-person Trump from the internet. While New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern showed her true authoritarian colours
It’s that time of year when the Auckland CBD homeless return from their baches in the Coromandel to live another year of gluttony and excess on the streets of our fair city. The last time I encountered them, one bloke, who is roughly the size of a small car,
Information Satire My Spyfly was ready and waiting on the wall of the room wherein the worshippers were to assemble, my mole in the parliamentary cleaning ranks having informed me that the PM, Justinda Ardeau, was scheduled to give a beginning of year pep talk to her new quiverful of
Just prior to Christmas, as things were winding down, Gordon Campbell wrote an article advising Labour to hit the accelerator. As a former researcher for the Green Party, Gordon would no doubt like the accelerator hit with the vehicle rounding a succession of left-hand bends. The result of that
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State
The plan to steamroll an Aboriginal ethnostate in Australia proceeds apace. Of course, its enthusiasts won’t call it that. They prefer to call it a “Voice” – whatever that means. Don’t bother asking what it means, because they won’t tell us. As an American politician famously put it,
Kristine Marsh newsbusters.org Last Friday evening, Twitter permanently banned President Trump from their platform. Google, Apple and Amazon immediately followed suit by booting the “free speech” platform Parler, which conservatives flocked to as an alternative to Twitter, from its respective app stores and web services. But the liberal hosts
Whereas New Zealand’s prime minister and foreign minister rushed to join the clucking claque of pearl-clutching cretins cheering on the un-personing of US President Donald Trump, at least a few in Australia’s government have scrabbled hard and found the withered remains of what once passed as
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate Wednesday, January 6, was a dark day. The world looked
NB Staff newsbusters.org Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell and more than 30 conservative leaders issued the following statement Monday calling for the breakup of Big Tech companies including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple after their sweeping acts of censorship against conservatives and President Donald Trump this past
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com Currently being unleashed in America is an unprecedented targeting of all genuine opposition to an embedded political establishment that’s foundation was rocked to its core by the election of outsider President Trump in 2016. Its purpose goes well beyond Donald Trump. The real goal is
January 11th 2021 A happy new year to all my readers (both still in the North Island). Well, what has happened since my last letter on Christmas Eve? Brexit came and went, and the UK has a trade agreement with the EU. The apocalypse promised by the remainers failed to
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz A WHO-commissioned meta-analysis of Ivermectin shows that using this generic medicine in hospitals leads to a 83% reduction in covid mortality (95% CI 65%-92%). The WHO is understood to be waiting for the results this month from three trials before issuing
As a regular visitor to the Middle East over the past twenty or so years I thought I had seen it all. I include in this assessment the (so-called) Arab Spring and the widely-held celebrations continuing after 9/11. But what I saw when passing through Dubai airport
