There has been an unholy race by three billionaires, Richard Branson, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Tesla's Eion Musk for bragging rights of who was the first billionaire to have a self propelled trip into space. Branson has won although there will be a debate about…
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We are entering into a new stage of the Covid Crisis. Clearly the disease is not going away and there are reports of a new strain dubbed the Peruvian Lambda strain. It has made its way to Australia and should have the authorities over there…
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First off - my apologies for letting the site drop out over the past days. We had several outages, computer and human. Sometime on Wednesday (I think), the site started to die after a operating system update and during the same day (I think), a…
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Another week has passed and attacks on the Government's hate speech consultation continue. I am struggling with this. The quality of the debate resembles what is happening right now in America where a three letter acronym, CRT, which stands for Critical Race Theory, has erupted…
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes: Good news on the climate front this morning: lawyers for Climate Action are taking the Climate Change Commission to court over their lax budgets and dodgy accounting: A coalition of more than 300 lawyers has filed suit against the…
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With the United States Supreme Court allowing individual states to choke voting rights into bare consciousness, that country is accelerating its democratic decline. That matters for every democracy including ours. Closer to home, Samoa's democracy is rapidly downgrading, with self-entitled elites actively sustaining their reign.…
Cross posted from niemanlab.org using the Creative Commons licence. Celsius temperatures added for clarity. By Sarah Miller June 29, 2021, 2:11 p.m. What kind of awareness quotient are we looking for? What more about climate change does anyone need to know? What else is there to…
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On Monday, RNZ reported that “Chinese Communist Party spies are infiltrating New Zealand universities,” citing the suspicions of three lecturers in Chinese history and politics. Auckland University lecturer Dr. Stephen Noakes said that on one occasion, "There was someone I did not recognise in the…
I honestly am not sure what Judith's game plan. It is sort of evident but it is so bizarre that I question whether she is playing six dimensional chess or a rather bad game of tic tac toe. Elements within National think it is the…
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