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Meme of the Day

Meme of the Day

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Climate Declaration a Triumph for Post-rational Politics

Climate Declaration a Triumph for Post-rational Politics

ACT Party “Today’s climate emergency was a triumph for post-rational politics with feelings rather than facts driving the Government’s response to climate change,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the Government has a sound climate change policy, it doesn’t need to declare an emergency. If it

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Ardern’s Climate Emergency

It occurred to me recently when watching the poor Plimmerton residents once again sweeping out sodden homes after another bout of torrential rain, the relatively small things councils can do when faced with more frequent heavy rain events (that wouldn’t be costly like the billions of dollars wasted on

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Welcome to the Middle Ages

Welcome to the Middle Ages

Pandemics, as we all know, are nothing new. What is new is the way we deal with them, but even that is true only to a point. Shakespeare wrote some of his best work while in isolation from the plague. People who were able fled the cities and moved to

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My Time at Kings Seeds

My Time at Kings Seeds

Taylor Sander kingsseeds.co.nz Howdy! My name is Taylor and I originally hail from Golden, Colorado, in the USA, but have spent the last 11 years in the Northeast of the country, seven of those being in NYC. I arrived in New Zealand last November when Covid wasn’t

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Daily News Roundup – 3 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 3 December 2020

Climate change Stuff: Editorial – Declaration’s value will be measured by action Yvette McCullough (RNZ): Climate Change declaration: ‘It’s not just symbolic declaration’ Richard Harman: Climate Change Emergency; is it more than a PR stunt? Melanie Carroll (Stuff): Aspirational goal but nothing concrete: Business reaction to climate emergency Dan

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China Shows Its True Face

China Shows Its True Face

China is now showing its true face to the world: a brutal bully, too gutless to pick a fight with the biggest kid in the playground, so it tries to shove around someone smaller. For decades, the communist state has tried to soft-soap a gullible world that it’s

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