UN Busybody Schooled by David Seymour: New Zealand’s Sovereignty Isn’t Your Playground
Seymour’s response was a masterstroke, defending New Zealand’s right to govern itself without interference from UN bureaucrats who wouldn’t know a Treaty settlement from a parking ticket.
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Bureaucracies do not abandon governing philosophies: they preserve them. Winning the policy war is not enough. Lasting reform requires restructuring who decides – not simply rewriting what is declared.
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It’s believed that could mean referring the matter to Internal Affairs regulators, or to the police.
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The word for today is… canoodle (verb) - : to engage in amorous embracing, caressing, and kissing : pet, fondle Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The origins of canoodle are uncertain, but may have their genesis in an English dialect noun of the same spelling meaning “donkey,” “fool,” or “foolish lover.” That canoodle may