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Australian Police Beating More People in the Streets Than the Taliban

Australian Police Beating More People in the Streets Than the Taliban

Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com The events surrounding COVID mitigation in Australia and New Zealand continue to astound me.  The last several days in several provinces have shown brutal conduct and physical attacks by police, riot units and military deployments against the citizens within their respective regions. All of this activity is

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Covid Level 4 Lockdown I hope you are safe and well at home as we continue this Level 4 lockdown. I can imagine that some of you may be feeling anxious, fed up, even angry! This virus is virulent, unpredictable and brings challenges

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Lockdown No Longer Short or Sharp

Lockdown No Longer Short or Sharp

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s inadequate testing and tracing have let us down, leaving us in lockdown for at least two weeks. The Prime Minister now tells us that ‘early modelling’ predicted cases would peak on day eight. Why did she promise a three and seven-day lockdown,

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The Army in Myanmar Is Getting Nervous

The Army in Myanmar Is Getting Nervous

23rd August 2021 The action taken by the PDF and the ethnic armies is beginning to take effect. The junta have instructed all its troops to be combat ready as a direct result of increased ambushes and urban attacks. The regime’s crackdown on its opponents is expected to intensify

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

He Puapua may not mean what we have been told it means. The authors of He Puapua say that the name ‘puapua’ means ‘break’ but these sketches by Koch show a different meaning; protective padding. Born in Berlin in 1834, Koch died in Wellington in 1901. Koch produced the series

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40 Years Ago the Springbok Rugby Tour Divided New Zealand

40 Years Ago the Springbok Rugby Tour Divided New Zealand

Eliora Here are two book reviews that are very different from each other, but equally good reminders that 40 years ago a Springbok rugby tour divided New Zealand. The violence that occurred has been at times labelled as eight weeks of “Batons, Brawls, Barbed wire and Boks.” Hold The Line

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The Costs and Benefits of Lockdown

The Costs and Benefits of Lockdown

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Back when I was a pinko I studied Policy Making 101. It was an attempt to improve government decision making by applying reason. The aim was to find

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NZ Hit by the Ardern COVID Strain

NZ Hit by the Ardern COVID Strain

Yet again we have the insufferable sight of Dear Leader performing her amateur theatrics at the podium of misinformation! Her presentation consists of an entree reminding us we are a team of five million, a main course consisting of a good serving of fear, while dessert is a sweetener of

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Nursing Crisis: We Need a Solution to a Serious Problem

Nurses in New Zealand are poorly paid. There is a significant shortage which is only going to get worse as experienced nurses leave the profession through exhaustion or burnout. This puts those still left in the profession under more pressure, which will only result in more nurses leaving. It is

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Know Them by the Company They Keep

Know Them by the Company They Keep

Remember when a former Klan leader endorsed Donald Trump for president? The media went ballistic: here was proof positive, they said, that Trump was a racist. After all, why else would the leader of a racist group praise him? (Never mind that a current Klan leader also endorsed Hillary Clinton.

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Government Unmasked

Government Unmasked

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