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Joanne Kidman, the head of New Zealand’s National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, called the Government a “death cult”...and 233 days later her organisation was defunded.
Adding huge wind turbine blades and solar panels to generate electricity occasionally is the ‘green’ scam of the century, as ‘renewables’ are increasing fossil fuel demands, but those so-called renewables CANNOT make any products that are the basis of our materialistic world.
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Luxon comes across as inauthentic, insincere and glib. He speaks a bit like a whoopsy, has girly small hands when he flops them around... and he’s a bit of a dork. Oh and he’s bald, which often doesn’t play well in politics or with the ladies.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL, LOCAL GOVERNMENT Giles Dexter (RNZ): Will the Wellington City Council intervention set a precedent? Luke Malpass (Post): The $700 million case for intervening in Wellington City Council (paywalled) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): What’s so bad about Wellington? Pressure on to see
The Greens are the most sanctimonious and hypocritical of any party currently in parliament. Their record speaks for itself, yet they still want us to take them seriously.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Auditor-General asked to investigate Costello decision to slash tax on heated tobacco products Jo Moir (RNZ): Bayly complaint: Email disappeared from Labour MP's inbox Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): The unanswered questions in the Andrew Bayly story Claire
The forlorn hope of her appeal has failed: her convictions stand. Justice Venning was having none of her womble excuses.
All in all, those who long ago drank the battery-electric Kool-Aid may hope they are not living in Jonestown.
Trump’s presidency was historic for many reasons but it became clear that he truly would do great things for his country and have the 24/7 media machine telling the world how terrible those same things were.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ANDREW BAYLY Andrea Vance (Post): Harmless bants, or the National party telling us exactly who it is? (paywalled) Adam Pearse, Claire Trevett, Julia Gabel (Herald): Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Andrew Bayly apologises for interaction during company visit RNZ: National Minister Andrew Bayly apologises
In a classic case of a tone-deaf civil servant who thinks she knows best, Solicitor-General Una Jagose issued and then retracted a sentencing guidance document that gave Māori a literal get-out-of-jail-free card based entirely on ethnicity.
