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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 The New Zealand Government may have replaced the Christchurch Call with the creation of a foundation, but questions remain about its relevancy. In May, Prime
When the Maori party aren’t race baiting, or blagging the systems they are troughing from in the order of millions of dollars, they seem to be doing increasingly dodgy things to remain at the colonialist trough they so hate: A Te Pati Maori MP and the marae she once
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The urban marae was part of a Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency drive to promote last year’s census, between March and June last year. It then became a polling booth at last year’s general election, a controversial decision because of Kemp’s candidacy for the Maori seat. Te Pati
Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org Much finger-wagging and self-righteous condemnation are happening in the halls of government these days, regarding revelations that HHS, our
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org My wife and I are in the process of finishing Shogun, the new FX miniseries on Hulu based on James Clavell’s 1975 book. Shogun was one of the first
Looks like at least one Wellingtonian gets it, kind of. Now if you’re anything like me, you hate filling out the census. […] Well the results of the 2023 census came out yesterday and there was one pretty shocking result for Wellington. […] Well, it was revealed yesterday that the only
James Hickman James Hickman (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com On TNT Radio, a live 24/7 independent news talk station, Dr Matt Shelton from New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) speaks with Charles Kovess on the current state of play in medicine, the ongoing persecution of doctors, pathways
Bruce Logan Bruce Logan is a board member of Family First NZ familyfirst.org.nz The rise of ‘boutique multiculturalism’ – by Bruce Logan Richard Dawkins, atheist extraordinaire and apprentice conservative, has not been on the road to Damascus, but somewhat belatedly he has recognised the significance of what we have
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 New Zealand police are investigating a highly inflammatory video recorded by Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, the wife of Maori Party Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi. In a
Matthew H I served 10 years in the US Army and married a Kiwi. I’m just trying to get people to understand MY people. New York City votes 80 per cent Democrat. The jury pool for Donald Trump’s trial would have been stacked with Trump haters. Same thing
Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz To truly understand [the 2024] Budget, it’s worth returning to a statement made in 2020 by the then British High Commissioner Laura Clark that
That well-known line is, as most will recall, from Mission Impossible. I fear that if something is not done soon to control the behaviour of the Maori Party then mission impossible will be the result. The Maori Party are lost and drowning in their own negative and increasingly violent
nzcovidresponse.substack.com In a May 16th interview, Robert Redfield the former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said of Covid vaccines “They’re important for the most vulnerable people, those over 60, 65 years of age. They really aren’t that critical for those who
Opinion polling shows that support for Israel among ordinary people remains strong. Very few support Hamas. Yet, that is not what we see peddled by the media, who too-obviously sympathise with the vicious ignoramuses screaming in the streets and on university campuses. Yet again, the divide between the elite
