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Face of the Day

Considered one of the main faces of the protest, Baker told the Herald he was pleased the charges against him had been dropped, though he did not yet know why. […] Baker said he didn’t commit any of the crimes he was accused of, saying the charge of resisting police

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Will Queenstown Lakes District Council Lose Its Consenting?

The Queenstown economy is struggling to rebound after Covid, and it is now struggling to find accommodation for workers. The Queenstown Lakes District Council would be expected to make rapid progress on consenting and allowing people to get on with building houses but they are not. There is already one

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Shock! ABC Almost Tells Truth

Shock! ABC Almost Tells Truth

Well, I’ll be buttered on both sides! The ABC is almost telling the truth about “renewables”! No, they’re not telling the truth about the massive pollution in developing countries caused by mining and manufacturing components for windmills and solar panels. And no, they’re not telling the truth

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7 Ways to Improve Your Online Debates

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. We’ve all been there. You post something online that you find interesting, perhaps an article you came across or a new

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China Cancels Pride Event in Taiwan

China Cancels Pride Event in Taiwan

Kuan-Wei Chen McGill University Mr. Kuan-Wei (David) Chen is the Managing Editor of the McGill Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (McGill Manual, https://www.mcgill.ca/milamos/) WorldPride 2025 would have been the first time a global lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and

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National Launches Campaign to Stop Jobs Tax
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National Launches Campaign to Stop Jobs Tax

National has launched a campaign to stop Labour’s planned Jobs Tax, National’s Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “New Zealanders struggling with the cost of living crisis need to speak up now to stop Labour’s tax grab on their hard-earned wages. “Many people will be surprised to

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The Story That Made the Washington Post Care about Balance

Tim Graham newsbusters.org Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. The Washington Post and its journalism lecturers like Margaret

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Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
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Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

STEPHEN BERRY’S GUIDE TO THE 2022 AUCKLAND LOCAL ELECTION VOTING GUIDES “They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and, following the Absolutely Biased Guide to the Auckland Local Elections 2019, there are plenty of imitations popping up on the internet in 2022,” says political commentator and 2013

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Divide and Conquer Tactics in Christchurch
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Divide and Conquer Tactics in Christchurch

In the lead up to the local body elections a Christchurch City Council  “meet the candidates” meeting divided the candidates into vaxxed and unvaxxed by telling the vaccinated candidates to identify themselves by standing up. Their tactic divided the room. No doubt their completely unacceptable and discriminatory goal was to

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Freedom on Tokelau Thanks to Legal Action

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Liz Gunn and her team at FreeNZ Media first alerted us to the plight of Mahelino Patelesio and his family on Tokelau’s Nukunonu Atoll on 3 July 2022. The family had been on house arrest (“tunoa”) under instruction of the

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Don’t Vote without the Absolutely Biased Guide

Stephen Berry Voting papers have started to be issued in Auckland and across the country for the 2022 local body elections. Former Auckland Mayoral candidate and political commentator Stephen Berry is encouraging people to have as much information available as possible before casting their vote and recommends they use the

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Can Russell Brown Tell the Truth?

Over the weekend urban cyclist, pannier bag and lamb chop recipe aficionado, Russell Brown, decided to enter into the debate about crime on his Twitter feed. He rather gloatingly declared victory over his detractors and published this tweet: A keen observer will note that Russell Brown is only publishing nine

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Tweet of the Day

Tweet of the Day

Jacinda Ardern has been tackling ‘disinformation’ and ‘radicalisation’ in New York. Once again she is back telling us all how dangerous ‘misinformation’ is, and how it’s driving people to ‘extremism’… Yawn. New Zealand is going to lead an international effort to examine how social media algorithms drive people towards

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New Documentary Exposes COVID ‘Scamdemic’

New Documentary Exposes COVID ‘Scamdemic’

dailytelegraph.co.nz THE DOCUMENTARY UPLOADED TO INDEPENDENT VIDEO PLATFORM RUMBLE HAS ATTRACTED A LARGE AUDIENCE The documentary, entitled The Big Reset: The Truth of the Pandemic, produced by a user known only as ‘W’ examines in detail how the Covid pandemic was used by state-subsidised legacy media to

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Going Right – And Winning

Going Right – And Winning

I previously wrote that the evil of wokeism and its destruction of humanity’s crowning achievement, Western culture, is only triumphing because too many conservatives are too gutless to stop it. But it’s not all bad news. Sure, if you’re reading this from Australia or New Zealand, it

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