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 […]
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The only bill a National govt should be debating about RadioNZ, TVNZ etc is to close the lot down – and hand the frequencies over gratis to Fox News.;
Free media in a free society support freedom.
Communist media in a communist society support communism.
It really is that simple: it is ALWAYS that simple.
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Years ago I noted how National ministers used to refer to the Party as a broad range consensus party. In other words “stand for anything mean nothing.” Nothing is new about the Nats today, just the same old same old. Never voted for them and never will. (Same goes for Labour though.)
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Which part of this don’t you understand:
To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.
Labour is Bolshevik.
National, for all its faults, is Menshevik.
The Greens, of course, are the Trots.
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I gather a wealthy Muslim has bought into Fox news so you can kiss that good-bye eventually.
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Not until you prise my internet from my cold, dead, hands!
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