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Photo thanks to Glenn Jeffrey I know that I have spent some time writing on this issue lately but it is still bugging me. Since when did the left become censors and the right become the defenders of free speech? The last month has been…
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Lifted from this piece ("Welcome to the Pliocene") published on the Skeptical Science web site. Data details: atmospheric CO2, temperature anomaly relative to the pre-industrial era and sea-levels relative to now measured and from palaeoclimate records. The graphic, created by "JG", is adapted from Table S1 from the paper's supporting information…
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“We are applying these sanctions against essentially all Russian state-owned or state-funded enterprises. That’s potentially a very great sweep of the Russian economy in terms of the potentially affected end users,” a senior official said. “It may be that something on the order of 70%…
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The US State department has announced significant sanctions against Russia for the assassination attempt against Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were hospitalized and treated for a nerve-agent attack in March. Both survived, but local resident Dawn Sturgess died on…
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Who protects us from water companies? No one. New Zealand seriously needs a water regulator. Something that will show that each catchment can withstand having that much taken out of it, and that it is being sold for a fair price, and ensures everyone has…
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I have mentioned before my increasing dislike of modern politics. This week UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded to ongoing accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party, issuing this public video statement. Meanwhile the Conservative Party face renewed accusations of Islamophobia after Boris Johnson’s comments about women in…
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This should have been a relatively small story, a 6 hour wonder. Some stirring among the twitterati, a bit of merriment on the left and that should be the end of it. I covered the story three days ago on Monday of this week. Judith…
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There were two successive decades in which radicals came into New Zealand with the intent of focusing latent societal rage into wholesale changes of our democracy and our society. They started arriving before World War One. These people were militants and proud of it. They…
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We are into round two of the debate concerning the right to freedom of speech in Aotearoa New Zealand. By a cruel twist of fate the subject matter is now Don Brash, former National Party leader, and who previously was the applicant for a super…
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There was a statement put out in the New York Times on July 27 defending postwar international institutions. And it was signed by hundreds of international relations scholars and specialists. The international order formed after World War II provides important benefits to the United States…
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Massey University has apparently cancelled a speech to be given by Donald Brash. Much as I cannot stand his politics or his thinly veiled racism there is no reason to stop him from speaking. The contents may approach being thinly veiled hate speech but unless he…
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The Left predicted the death of neoliberalism after the global financial crisis of 2008. The world financial system nearly collapsed. Working people watched their savings evaporate, home equities plummet and wages stagnate. An equity bubble inflated by easy credit and risky derivatives burst all over…
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You can really tell that National is missing the baubles of office. Yesterday not only was Judith Collins tweeting fake news, then refusing to back down and accept fault and requiring Simon Bridges to acknowledge that she was wrong (how he must have hated it)…
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National's queen of twitter just got owned. She tweeted a fake news story and demanded that Jacinda Ardern denounce whatever it was the fake news story was saying. Here is the tweet: Newshub has the background: National Party MP Judith Collins has shared a story…
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Hilary Cinton’s campaign team had an idea. They thought that if they promoted the most unpalatable of the bunch in the Republican primaries then the Presidency would be a shoo-in for Hillary. They dubbed it "The Pied Piper" strategy. To that end, they worked to…
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The pollwatch continues! In this ongoing series, I look at trends, why Matthew Hooton shouldn't quote things out of context like I warned him not to, how healthy the Greens are, and whether National is on a decline. (I may disagree with my fellow author…
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Google is planning a launch of its eponymous spectacular search engine in which it allows censorship from the Chinese state. Some U.S. politicians aren't happy about it. Principles are, in the words of the words of my tailor, funny; you loosen a bit here, you…
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