Several months ago Auckland University of Technology’s History Professor Paul Moon released an open letter signed by 27 New Zealanders warning free speech was under threat:
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I hate this topic with a passion. Mostly because I’m tired of all the misinformed screeching, frothing emotive bullshit coming out of the orifices of many, not all, but many of the anti 1080 brigade, and at times the pro 1080 advocates as well.
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A petition circulated by emotive millennials, Social Justice Warriors and social media sheep to remove Mike Hosking from the election debates has failed, with TVNZ sticking to their decision despite the continued sharing on left leaning blogs and social media.
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Labour continues with it’s rolling red phalanx against farming and horticulture operations. They will dump the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management in favour of policy based on recommendations made by Environment Court judge David Sheppard in 2010 as water spokesman David Parker confirms. Continue reading
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Tolerance: as long as it doesn’t offend me. (which is everything)
People are getting the sad sniffles online over a new Sushi store in Waikato Hospitals Meade Centre in the former chlamydia capital of New Zealand because it sounds too close to a naughty word. Fuku – pronounced foo koo -which means fortune in Japanese is apparently far too offensive for some people to cope with: Continue reading
While Labour still rides the crest of the wave of the leadership change honeymoon and a surge in the polls, Labour this week announced their water policy….minus the most important rural vote killing details. Cost.
I don’t believe for a second they haven’t done the numbers on it, and they know it will get some pushback. They haven’t gone into too many details, mainly because they know it will hurt votes and have a negative effect on the regions economies. Continue reading
Most supporters had written off the allegations as minor, a desperate plight for the welfare of her child, excusable under her circumstances. We now know that those circumstances are complete bullshit. After some poking and prodding around those close to Turei, RNZ has revealed the litany of lies she preached from her Green co-throne to fabricate her “wider discussion” around welfare and poverty. Continue reading
“I’m committed to stay at least until the election… I know I have the support of my party and the support of my caucus”
The utterances of a selfish and arrogant party leader that places herself at the front line of calling for resignations at the slightest hint of trouble within opposing parties. It’s not so much the offending that most people object to, not to take away from its seriousness, but the lack of contrition. The sanctimonious entitlement that elevates her above the standard of accountability that the Greens so often hold others to. Continue reading