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NZ Cannot Afford a Generous NDC Gesture

J M White There is no New Zealand left for anyone to aspire to. Most NZ citizens couldn’t even tell you now what a New Zealander is since the very definition of the nation was destroyed by replacing identity with ideology. Once a government starts distributing national resources to

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Dying in the Dark? Oh Please!

Dying in the Dark? Oh Please!

As delightful as the demise of the media has been, there seems to be a narrative building, especially from those same media people who failed to read the room, that somehow democracy is dying in the dark because media companies are failing. It is as histrionic as it is false.

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The Arrogance of the Elite

The Arrogance of the Elite

Dear Editor Watching ‘The Chaser’ on TV, I was exposed yet again to the Pacific Island bowel screening advert. The one with the big group singing and cheering, and the kid finishing with “You can Poo it” to his grandfather. It was clearly designed by someone with a very low

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The True History of Public Health Colonialism

The True History of Public Health Colonialism

David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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What’s up with the German Economy?

What’s up with the German Economy?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ Alexander Frei Alexander Frei is a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment

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Houthis Turn the Red Sea Deadly

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Despite the US and its allies attempting to provide safe passage in the Red Sea, the international waterway simply is not safe. In fact, it’s quite deadly – as the crew of the Barbados-flagged True Confidence unfortunately discovered Wednesday, March 6. The merchant vessel was set

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An Explosive Leak of Trans Documents

An Explosive Leak of Trans Documents

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com Amongst the dozens of themes covered by President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address was a big shout-out for the transgender lobby: “my message to transgender Americans: I have your back!” No doubt about that, none whatsoever.

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They Are Ignoring the Health Issues

They Are Ignoring the Health Issues

Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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The UK Is Hellward Bound

The UK Is Hellward Bound

Harry Palmer Though people from Britain’s colonies have always been welcomed to the heart of the Empire, the trickle became a stream following WWII when a number of shiploads of immigrants from the Caribbean, notably Jamaica, arrived, many of them on board the HMT Empire Windrush, which was in

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The MoE Protects Their Own

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.

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Film Commission Gives $800K to Documentary

Film Commission Gives $800K to Documentary

dailytelegraph.co.nz THE NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION IS ALLOCATING $800,000 TOWARDS A DOCUMENTARY ON THE ‘LEADERSHIP’ OF FORMER PRIME MINISTER JACINDA ARDERN, AMIDST THE CONTEXT OF ‘RISING VIOLENT EXTREMISM’ AND ONLINE HATE IN NEW ZEALAND. According to a report in state news outlet RNZ, the documentary is not

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Luxon Finds Out a Reverse Ferret Isn’t Good for Ratings
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Luxon Finds Out a Reverse Ferret Isn’t Good for Ratings

Christopher Luxon needs to realise that the media are not his friends: in fact they are the enemy. The media also discovered that, when put under pressure, Luxon folds like a Warehouse deck chair. That’s why his ratings have plummeted in the latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll: PartySupportChange compared

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Chloe Swarbrick has been elected co-leader of the Green Party. “The Greens care a lot about whakapapa. We know that we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. We know, as the late great green Efeso Collins said, no one stands alone, no one succeeds alone,

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Biden Battles for His Job

Biden Battles for His Job

Mark Angelides libertynation.com This was not so much a State of the Union address as a State of Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign. Delivering a strikingly partisan performance at last night’s (March 7) event, the president ran the gamut on his favored talking points – a large chunk of

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