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Fritz, private secretary to Klouse (the K is silent) Swab, of the Wicked Eugenicist Fascists (WEF), cleared his throat in true secretarial fashion, to alert his despotic Führer to his presence in his office. Klouse opened a bleary eye and used it to direct a baleful glare at Fritz. “Vhat
Enjoy this sixth episode of Aotearoa Farm by Maree Buske. Move over Animal Farm… Aotearoa Farm is a modern-day online radio serial. Maree Buscke of Wednesday’s Counter Culture show shares with listeners her weekly instalments of the dramatic happenings on Aotearoa Farm (formerly known as Kiwi Farm). Squealer
Christopher Luxon’s working relationship with the Ardern Government will come back to haunt him when voters become more familiar with the unlucky 13 who made up the Ardern Business Advisory Council. In 2018 Jacinda Ardern appointed Christopher Luxon chair of a new Business Advisory set up to advise the
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Who will the new National Government listen to when it decides how to govern? An early indication may be seen
Here are the post-election replays of The Crunch. This week’s guests were Matt McCarten and Rachel Stewart, and we did an election post-mortem. Enjoy! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund
Andrew Lowenthal Andrew Lowenthal is a Brownstone Institute fellow and co-founder and former executive director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights, open and secure technology, and documentary non-profit, and a former fellow of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and MIT’s Open Documentary
Like the political toddlers that they are, the left never takes a firm “No” and a smack on the bum for an answer. They just scream louder, stamp their feet harder, and throw their toys further, trying to get their way. This is exactly what Anthony Albanese and the rest
The Israel-Gaza war is morally crystal-clear in a way that no conflict has been for the last eighty years. In the early 1940s, there was no moral equivalence between the Allies and the Axis. The enormities of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were so beyond the pale of
Nicholas Fondacaro Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. newsbusters.org CNN’s
One of the big questions about last week’s horrific progrom by Hamas is not why the left are so supportive of the murderers. We already knew that the left are anti-Semitic to the core. Rather, many people are asking: how? How, after all, does a motley terrorist government
As should surprise no one, the left and the troughers of the Aboriginal Industry are throwing an epic tanty at losing the “Voice” referendum. “Indigenous leaders” meaning the tiny clique of city-based activists, academics and assorted troughers who’ve made whole careers out of milking the $30 billion annually
In my previous article I wrote about the babies that were reported to have been killed in Israel. I included the following link to an interview with a reporter from Israel: Another victim was mentioned in the interview, that I have left off for this article. I have not been
The election result has almost biblical connotations, such was the magnitude of the defeat. As one who believes religion and politics should be kept at arm’s length, I hesitate to draw any similarities. But politically speaking we have had the parting of the Red Sea of many of the
bobmccoskrie.com Despite the optimism, the significant effort of time and expense, the passion, the utter hard slog, the results are in for the minor parties. Politics is a brutal sport. Good on these parties for putting their hand up and being willing to get involved. We need their voice
For the last few weeks we have had to endure a general election campaign. It consisted of all sorts of promises, publicity stunts, claims, counterclaims, scares, opinion polls and media commentary. Then the electorate voted. Many New Zealanders found it all highly entertaining – especially when their man got stuck into
Chris Trotter Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz I ALWAYS WONDERED what it would take to detach the New Zealand working class from Labour. Not all of the working class, obviously, but enough to strip the party of the demographic heft that, for more than a century, has made it
