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The Speech Mahuta Should Have Given
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The Speech Mahuta Should Have Given

Free Press ACT Party Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s speech on China has been described as just dreadful. Free Press has acquired an earlier draft of the speech. The MFAT employee who wrote it has not been seen lately, and the final version Mahuta delivered was quite different. Nonetheless, we’

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Is China the Democrats’ Next War?

Is China the Democrats’ Next War?

Doesn’t China have McDonald’s? I bring this up because of Thomas Friedman’s famous dictum – or wishful thinking – that countries with McDonald’s don’t go to war with each other. Of course, Friedman’s argument is more of a guideline than a rule. India and Pakistan, both

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CATCH-’21

CATCH-’21

Amotz Asa-El aijac.org.au Israel emerged from yet another election on March 23 with its two-year political deadlock fully intact. In fact, the already complex plot thickened further, spotlighting two kingmakers who, despite having nothing to do with each other, might jointly write a new chapter in

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Secret Army Death Instructions

Secret Army Death Instructions

26th April 2021 The Tatmadaw has upped the destructive capability of the weapons being deployed against the civilians. It took a couple of weeks for the army and police to start getting serious about violence against the demonstrators when they realised that the demonstrations weren’t going to stop. As

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14 Months Later: A Pathway Forward

Paul E. Alexander aier.org Paul E. Alexander received his bachelor’s degree in epidemiology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, a master’s degree from Oxford University, and a PhD from McMaster University’s Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. Is there a chance to recover and

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Putin’s Army of the Dead

Putin’s Army of the Dead

They go in for some weird shit in the name of defence, those Russians. Whether it’s confounding the Luftwaffe by using WWI biplanes so slow that the fearsome Messerschmidt Me-109s couldn’t slow down to engage them without stalling, or simply retreating over an iced-over lake and

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Starvation Looms for 3,000,000

Starvation Looms for 3,000,000

25th April 2021 Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister said in 1932 “The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.” He was referring to aerial bombardment, but it is a

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The Chronicles of Nanaia Mahuta

The Chronicles of Nanaia Mahuta

Nanaia Mahuta, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, has set the cat among the pigeons in the Five Eyes group. They want to scratch her eyes out over this. She borrowed the title of a book by Manying Ip from 2009 called “The Dragon and the Taniwha” and wove it into

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The Four Eyes vs Taniwha Wink
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The Four Eyes vs Taniwha Wink

A discussion is very much needed of both Nanaia Mahuta’s speech and New Zealand’s participation in Five Eyes. There has been considerable commentary from politicians and those in the media, some a little surprising. Two factors are at play here. One is the responsibility incurred when a country,

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Women in Grass Skirts Shouldn’t Throw Stones

Women in Grass Skirts Shouldn’t Throw Stones

My father always used to think that everyone in New Zealand wore grass skirts and threw spears. He wasn’t joking. That was the view often presented to the world when royalty or dignitaries came here. He had a clear memory of the Prince and Princess of Wales in a

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Taniwha

Taniwha

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Canadian Students Dump Anti-Semitic BDS

Canadian Students Dump Anti-Semitic BDS

Let’s not kid ourselves: the BDS movement is anti-Semitism. Many of its adherents might protest otherwise, some of them no doubt actually believe it, a small number are surely well-intentioned, but the fact remains: BDS is anti-Semitic. Its founders are outspoken in their hatred of Jews.

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Dragon vs Taniwha

Dragon vs Taniwha

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