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Robert Bridge rt.com Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of Midnight in the American Empire: How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. The spectacle of comedian Chris Rock being assaulted at the Academy Awards by Will Smith reveals something
The botched $20 million measles vaccine catch-up programme is worse than it appears, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “The other week it was revealed that $8 million of measles vaccines were left unused and had expired. “However, information shows that only 11,206 people of the
This Labour Government, right from the outset, has shown itself to be pig-ignorant when it comes to private enterprise. Their members are union-friendly (beholden) and business-antagonistic. Nothing illustrates their attitude better than Covid. They effectively left the tourism and hospitality industries to bleed to death. Their complete
JM White Information Opinion During the Cold War America defined standards of ‘rationality’ and then concluded the Soviets would not use nuclear weapons because rational leaders would not do it; otherwise they would be irrational. Using this standard of rationality gives us an idea of why the leaders of western
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Over the last year or so, I’ve read a lot of books (or more accurately, listened to a lot of books on Audible) on the US political
Family First An in-depth analysis of the media coverage of the ‘conversion therapy’ bill which was passed in Parliament in February has found that support for the law received a heavily biased share of the media coverage during the campaign period. The analysis looked at 126 New Zealand-based
If anyone ever believed universities are institutions where academics can speak their minds freely and openly, the stoush sparked by the letter that seven University of Auckland professors sent to the Listener last July should have thoroughly disabused them of that notion. What should have been an uncontroversial statement – that
Jacinda Ardern is in deep political doo-doo. Her poll numbers are tanking. She’s still got a good 18 months before another election, of course — but then, so did Kevin Rudd. Ardern must surely be turning in circles right now, trying to spot where the knife will come from.
I was not surprised to see our mainstream media feature another story of a survivor of Hiroshima recalling the horrors of nuclear weapons as part of their anti-nuclear narrative. This again shows the wilful ignorance our media and political class have of the history of the Pacific Theatre during
Information Opinion The announcement from the government that employers do not have to rehire unvaccinated workers came as a shock. Employers should tread very carefully in this area, as it appears, to me at least, to fly in the face of employment law as it is applied today. The new
Farmlands are the latest store to deploy discriminatory and pointless policies against their own customers. They’ve chucked someone out of their store and trespassed them for the high crime of not wearing a mask: A woman has been left shocked and hurt after being kicked out of a Farmlands
Last Thursday The BFD published an article by Dr Muriel Newman called “Call Co-governance What It Really Is…tribal Rule” The core message is that democratically-elected DHBs will be replaced by two agencies, one called “Health New Zealand” and the other a Maori Health Authority, with the Maori
Sven Grünewald brownstone.org Sven Grünewald got his Master’s degree in Political Science, Scandinavian studies and Egyptology from Göttingen University in 2004. Since then he has been working as a journalist for different newspapers, magazines, and as a university lecturer for media studies and media ethics. Warning Long Read.
