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It’s Not Easy Being Green
I have always said that the Greens are people who live in an ideological world, but I have recently changed my view. Their world is not entirely ideological. It is, in fact, quite possible. They live in a world where there are cycle lanes everywhere, pop-up walkways, few cars
Daily News Roundup – 9 September 2020
Economic inequality Susan Edmunds (Stuff): New Zealand’s trillion-dollar wealth gap: Who are we leaving behind Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): The Government likes to say it follows expert advice – that’s not quite true Susan Edmunds (Stuff): 185,000 workers expect to lose their jobs within next year, Stats NZ
No Leaks at the Border. Hmm…
The Government still says that there is no link to the border for the resurgence of the Chinese plague, despite the fact the B1.1.1 genome comes from Australia. We discovered last week that 179 people left isolation with no tests, and now we find that more than 100
Face of the Day
An event planner has slammed the Health Minister for telling Aucklanders not to attend a conference – advice which went against official guidelines. During the daily coronavirus update, Health Minister Chris Hipkins said “no” when asked whether he was comfortable with Aucklanders attending a conference in Queenstown this weekend. However, guidelines
WE Charity Scandal
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Republicans Have Used a ‘Law & Order’ Message to Win Elections Before
Timothy J. Lynch University of Melbourne In 1991, Donald Trump’s mother, Mary, was mugged on a New York street. As Trump’s niece recounts in her new book, the young assailant slammed Mary’s head into her Rolls Royce so hard, her brain haemorrhaged. This firsthand experience with violent
Walkaway: Trump Popularity With Black Voters Soars
It’s long been difficult to tell whether the “Walkaway” movement was merely an artifact of conservative social media users, or a real phenomenon that would manifest itself at the 2020 presidential elections. “#WalkAway” is a social media campaign that encourages liberals dismayed by the increasingly lunar left to have
Trans-Tasman Bubble Is Just Wishful Thinking
The reaction of governments on both sides of the Tasman to the Wuhan pandemic has been near-hysterical overreaction coupled with the most bizarre wishful thinking. Panic – and an innate taste for untrammelled power – drove the unacknowledged shift of the pandemic goalposts from “flatten the curve” to “elimination”. Bear in
WA’s Anti-palmer Law Could Cost All Australians
Australia’s state governments haven’t exactly been covering themselves in glory over the last six months. There was the NSW government’s incompetent handling of the Ruby Princess cruise ship, which unleashed a wave of infections across Australia. Victoria has been a masterclass in failure, from its execrable hounding
Kerryn Phelps, Your Fakefugees Are Playing up Again
Has anyone heard from Dr Kerryn Phelps lately? The pinup-girl of the ultra-wealthy Harbourside green-left used her brief, unlamented stint in parliament as a bully platform for everything the bourgeois almond-fussers hold dear. Not least of all their unrelenting fetishising of illegal immigrants. Phelps was basically
Air New Zealand’s Kiwi Impersonation
New Zealand’s national carrier is well on the way to emulating its national symbol: a flightless bird at risk of extinction. Like the kiwi, Air New Zealand’s possible demise is the result of predators and the loss of its natural habitat – international air travel – due to human interference.
A Faulty Batch of Genes
Information Satire Your intrepid eyewitness recently bumped into an old colleague whose path had not crossed his for some years. He was a scientist: a rather eccentric chap, being well-stricken in years, whose area of expertise was fiddling with DNA and looking for that breakthrough that might save the
State Control of Farms
Information Satire A discussion document leaked to The Woke Examiner shows that state control of all farms is now complete. It details how a long term plan using Health and Safety measures, the Resource Management Act, principles of Te Treaty, the zero-carbon target, COVID lockdowns and now, freshwater reforms