With apologies to Max Ehrmann, who wrote the original text in Desiderata in 1927, “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the communist plan for New Zealand is unfolding as it should”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the failure of law and order and the political perversion of the police, […]
If Jimmy Shaw suddenly became leader of National there would be an outcry from the party’s supporters. The man in the street supporter that is. The hard core of the party, the same people who have let it drift steadily left for forty years, would probably be flat out on Kiwiblog and other social media […]
If you’re a believer in reason, you would no doubt be left speechless by the torrent of nonsense that is the accepted public discourse today. The term “speechless” is chosen specifically here. What does one say that can have any impact upon the overwhelming onslaught of Alice in Wonderland style absurdity that is currently being […]
Education Minister Hekia Parata today welcomed 38 Mandarin Language Assistants from China to New Zealand at Parliament.
TrueblueNZ 
I’d love to see some broader analysis of this FTA. I’ve read that it gives special visa rights for up to 20000 Chinese nationals to work here, they are able to circumvent NZ supply chains for materials and equipment when doing business in NZ and they can take their NZ made product away without exchanging currency.
http://nzfirst.org.nz/news/new-zealand-first-says-no-more-farm-sales-non-resident-foreigners
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Yes, it would indeed be interesting. Did you see the post below regarding the Chicom’s willingness to supply arms to Hawaiian separatists? Disturbing to say the least.
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Are we going to insist that all communications with Chine should be in Maori???
Or should, because of its economic importance to New Zealand, Mandarin be compulsory in our Schools.
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