Everything about politics
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The Joe Pags Show is a nationally syndicated talk radio show broadcast on stations all over the USA with an audience of around 5 million. Here in New Zealand you can listen on iHeart radio or as I prefer to do, view it on Twitch TV. The show is on
As I’ve reported for The BFD, the ineluctable realities of demographics and geopolitics are against China’s superpower ambitions. Geopolitically, superpowerdom means a lot more than just military strength. A superpower has the sort of cultural clout that draws other nations into its sphere of influence by a kind
Brendan O’Neill, editor of “Spiked”, asks the question “What’s the real reason so many people hate Israel?“ Did you know that for the past three weeks Turkey has been engaged in a military assault on Iraqi Kurdistan? It’s been brutal. The Turks, who have one of the
New Zealand Greens’ list MP Golriz Ghahraman sure does like to talk up the evils of slavery and colonialism. She wants statues of New Zealand’s “colonial past” removed. She also makes a big noise about supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement, whose central platform is “reparations” for slavery. But
Francis Phillips mercatornet.com Churchill & Son By Josh Ireland. 2021. 464 pages When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound,
We want the vaccine rollout to go faster because vaccinated people will help achieve herd immunity, keep our borders open, make disastrous lockdowns a thing of the past, and allow us to dust off our passports and travel again. Sounds simple and achievable, doesn’t it? “While Australia has rolled
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments While Grant Robertson was announcing increased benefits and higher spending on social services I couldn’t help thinking
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wrote a rip-snorter for the Herald on Wednesday. She neatly explained how she divides New Zealanders into three groups: (1)
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The Joe Pags Show is a nationally syndicated talk radio show broadcast on stations all over the USA with an audience of around 5 million. Here in New Zealand you can listen on iHeart radio or as I prefer to do, view it on Twitch TV. The show is on
As I reported recently, even Labor insiders and unionists are warning the party leadership to drop the woke-ism and stop making policy in and for “inner-city coffee shops”. That covers everything from climate alarmism to radical gender theory. As former frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon warned, Labor’s brand is
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has
Jewish shops smashed and looted. Synagogues and schools attacked. A statue of an Honorary American Citizen who saved thousands of Jews during the holocaust defaced with anti-Semitic slogans. This has to be the work of the far-right, yes? No. This mini-Kristallnacht was the work of the supposedly
Information Satire We are such lucky, lucky people privy to the imminent unveiling of an official new language to replace the cumbersome bunch of three languages that few will master and even fewer understand. Streamlining three sub-standard languages into one easily understood language makes perfect sense, and of course
I’ve avoided hot topics recently, being preoccupied with other matters, but I shall wade into the fray on this. I try to avoid public criticism of those “on the right”, but things have gotten so bad that it’s important for someone to speak up. I’ve heard Lee
