Sir Apirana Ngata
Sir Apirana Ngata wrote his explanation of the Maori version of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1922, when he was an MP. That was in the days before activists started re-inventing the treaty. The booklet was published and distributed to all Maori families. You can read it below.
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures – from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez – who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
Whether this is a price worth paying to ‘maintain our sacred democracy’ is doubtful in the extreme.
We don’t want the racists in the driver’s seat or even the back seat. Preferably they should be given the boot – quite literally.
Climate nonsense will eventually end and will be dumped onto the ash heap of history where it belongs. But the longer the cult goes on, the more damage is done. We should all do what we can to stop the madness as soon as possible.
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So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
