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Predictable White Wash from the IPCA Report

Predictable White Wash from the IPCA Report

As I predicted on Tuesday the IPCA report into Police actions at the Parliament Protest has essentially been a whitewash, liberally sprinkled with justification for their actions and a grab for more power by way of enhanced trespass laws. The police watchdog has found, despite a number of police failings

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Rt Hon Winston Peters Press Release The IPCA report on the parliamentary protest has been released and makes a number of points, but notably reiterates one important one. Police knew and assessed that the original protest was legal and attended by a majority of legitimate voices. This is the point

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What Are the Leaker-Hunters Trying to Hide?

What Are the Leaker-Hunters Trying to Hide?

As we’ve seen, the first reaction of the US government and its media bootlickers was to lie that the documents were the work of “pro-Russian elements”. Then, they shifted to smear: attacking the young airman who leaked them as a far-right racist. Now, the narrative has shifted

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The Process Is the Punishment

The Process Is the Punishment

Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk The bail conditions for a pro-life volunteer, which prevented her from engaging in any public prayer, have been relaxed after her legal team argued that the restrictions were “disproportionate” and “unnecessary”. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for silently praying in a so-

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Beer Makers Should Stick To Making Beer

Douglas Andrews papundits.wordpress.com Douglas Andrews began part-time editing for The Patriot Post more than two decades ago, working primarily with Mark Alexander. He joined our editorial team full-time as a writer and analyst in 2020. As a former Marine with 30 years of research and writing

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The Biggest Threat to Women’s Rights

The Biggest Threat to Women’s Rights

Emmy Griffin papundits.wordpress.com Emmy Griffin is a Chicago native who now resides in the South. As a former educator, she has had the opportunity to teach all grade levels K-12. The passion that drove her during teaching — the love of her students and the people they are

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Don’t Call Them Socialist It Simply Isn’t True

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as

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Maori Do Not Own the Water

G P Stephenson John Tamihere is a former Labour Cabinet minister and the chief executive of Whanau Ora and West Auckland Urban Maori organisation Te Whanau o Waipareira. He is tane vice-president of Te Pati Maori. OPINION: If we were playing Jeopardy, the answer is Maori, and the winning

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Why Chris Hipkins Is Heading to Brisbane – Not Beijing

Why Chris Hipkins Is Heading to Brisbane – Not Beijing

Geoffrey Miller democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on

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The History of Bank IOUs

The History of Bank IOUs

Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan  BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher Part 13 of 18 The social conditions prevailing in the Kingdom of England and Wales at the very beginning of the 18th century were such that the parliament of the Kingdom

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Well Done Simon O’Connor
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Well Done Simon O’Connor

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Below, an excellent article by National MP Simon O’Connor who is not someone I would normally share much opinion with. For example, Simon initially trained for the priesthood and is a fervent Royalist, two bloody good reasons for him to be publicly hanged. But

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Off to the Gulag for You Sonny
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Off to the Gulag for You Sonny

National’s woke project is going gangbusters. First Maureen Pugh was attacked by Christopher Luxon and the deputy scold, Nicola Willis, for wrong-think regarding climate change. Pugh was sentenced to remedial reading on the topic. Now Joseph Mooney is in danger of being sent to the re-education camps

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

I would suggest @Kieran_McAnulty has a read of Ko te tuarua (Article 2) of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the guarantee of tino rangatiratanga to “ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani” – every single person in New Zealand. https://t.co/gWPvGsQpQA — Joseph Mooney MP (@JosephMooneyMP) April 16, 2023

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What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential

What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,

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Lying and Shooting the Messenger

Lying and Shooting the Messenger

Back in the day, Daniel Ellsberg was a hero of the media-left, for leaking the Pentagon Papers, which showed that the US government was systematically lying to the American people about the war in Vietnam. But that was a war that the media-left hated. Fifty years later, the

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