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Legal
Empowerment for the Poor
16 July 08
Mike Moore
Look at the worst places to
live in the world – Burma, North Korea, Zimbabwe. What
have they in common? No
democracy, no human, civil, commercial and legal rights.
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National
Security
13
July 2008
Muriel Newman
Last week, a report
prepared by the ANZ estimated that back-office departmental spending
had grown 40 percent faster than operational spending on front-line
services. More
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The
Unseen World of Industrial Espionage
13
July 08
Warren Reed Industrial espionage has a
very long heritage, it’s rampant and on a global scale – and New
Zealand is in no way immune...
Throughout history, intelligence has been about stealing other people’s
ideas, mainly those that could be turned into products and sold to
create wealth... More
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Mike
Moore needs some reminders of Labour’s past
9 July 08
Michael Littlewood
In his rush to judgement (The Politics of Retirement, 18 June 2008, nzcpr
midweek), Mike Moore slides by some inconvenient
truths about the last 30 or so years of
New Zealand
’s superannuation history. More
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Restoring
Fatherhood
6
July 2008
Muriel Newman
The
fact is that endless studies show
that virtually every major social pathology we face can be
linked back to the breakdown of the family...
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Homo
Degeneratus
5
July 08
Sir Bob Jones
Five
years ago Reeds published my novel True
Facts. Before
you scream, understand that the title was not a
grammatical error, rather it was deliberate and highly
pertinent to the plot, as I shall explain.
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Clark for
UN Human Rights Role?
2 July 08
Hon Murray McCully
The
announcement that New Zealand has declared its candidacy for
membership of the United Nations Human Rights Council raises a
number of interesting questions. Like why are we doing this? More
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Protecting
our Future
29
June 2008
Muriel Newman
New
Zealand is the only country in the world to have
agricultural emissions included as a part of its Kyoto
Protocol commitments. This is significant given agricultural
emissions of methane from ruminants and nitrous oxide from
fertilizer make up 48.5 percent of our emissions total...
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Cows
and Sheep May Safely Graze?
28
June 08
Prof. David Bellamy
As a
youngster in a post war London I was brought up on lamb
and anchor butter from New Zealand.
I still delight in your butter and lamb... More
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High Noon
in Geneva, Again
25 June 08
Mike Moore
Agriculture has always been
the deal-breaker or deal-maker in world trade talks at the
World Trade Organisation. Ministerial trade talks have often collapsed,
because governments have not been able to agree. More
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The
Future of Maori Seats
22
June 2008
Muriel Newman
According
to the Christchurch Press, a 35kg greenstone pounamu travelled first
class to China, accompanied by two members of Ngai Tahu. They explain
that the stone had to fly first class because Ngai Tahu claimed it
was “culturally insensitive to put it in the hold”
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The
Maori Seats in Parliament
19
June 08
David Round
An old
adage declares that nothing is as permanent as a temporary
expedient. Four Maori seats were established within the
New Zealand Parliament in 1867 as a very temporary
expedient, originally for a mere five years...More
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The
Politics of Retirement
18 June 08
Mike Moore
After nearly a decade out of power, it’s easy to forget how
dreadful, cynical and short-sighted the National Party has been in
the past, especially in regard to the treatment of retired New
Zealanders. More
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Massive
increase in spending, little increase in benefit
15
June 2008
Muriel Newman
Since taking office, Labour has spent $85 billion more
than if core government spending had been held at 1999
levels. The question is whether this massive additional
spending has been of benefit? More
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China,
NZ and the Free Trade Agreement
14
June 08
Prof Roger Bowden
Visiting
China
is a disconcerting experience these days. The main or central campus
of Xiamen
University, which is where I’ve just been, has nearly 30,000
students, every single one of them postgraduate. More
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Big
Ideas to Super-size New Zealand's Economy
11 June 08
Dr Don Brash
Don
Brash outlines a 10-point plan to increase our living
standards. He says implementing it would take courage, but
none of it is politically impossible and the results would
be remarkable.
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How
the Numbers add up, for Labour
8 June 08
Muriel Newman
The
latest Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Statement will be of very
serious concern to the Labour-led coalition government, given
that it comes only months ahead of the 2008 general election.... More
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Climate Change Conference
8 June 08
Professor Bob Carter
A
scientist at the heart of the global warming debate
presents a research report which examines a supposedly
impartial conference held in Wellington for evidence of
media and political bias. More
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Science,
Politics & Climate Change
4 June 08
Dr Ron Smith
Science does not proceed on
the basis of consensus. The
history of science is full of cases where a minority (or
even single individuals) turn out to be right and the
majority turns out to be wrong.
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False Theory, Green Politics, Bad
Outcomes
30 May 08
Dr
Timothy Ball
Imagine
basing global or national energy and economic policy on a
false theory; pursuing that policy even if clear evidence
shows it is wrong; continuing even though the devastating
effects of such actions are already manifest; putting your
economy in competitive disadvantage... More
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Distinguishing
Reality from Fantasy
31 May 08
Muriel Newman
In spite of not being able to
accurately forecast next week’s weather, New Zealand’s
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
(NIWA) has just released climate predictions for 2090... More
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"Bunkham",
Populism & Demagogic Politics
28 May 08
Mike Moore
Politics should be more noble than a checklist of fears
and promises to targeted sectors, to be ticked off during
an election cycle. One of the tragedies of NZ politics is
how the real promise of Winston Peters...has been wasted. More
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Election
Year Budget Lacks Vision
25 May 08
Muriel Newman
“The cupboard is bare”…
“I’ve
not merely stolen their fox I’ve eviscerated it,
strangled it and thrown it into their back garden.”
These were the retorts of Finance
Minister Michael Cullen during the Parliamentary
Debate on the 2008 Budget. These
comments are both disturbing and revealing... More
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Budget
2008: An Admission of Failure
24 May 08
Roger Kerr
What should we hold a government accountable for?
The answer would seem obvious: whether it is achieving the
goal which it has stated to be its “top priority’. The
current government has been unequivocal about its top
priority goal: to get New Zealand
back into the top half of the OECD income range.
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The Global Warming Debate
18 May 08
Fred Singer
In the past few years
there has been increasing concern about global climate
change... this concern is misplaced, human activities are not
influencing the global climate... and very little can be
done about global climate change. More
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Prof Singer on YouTube explaining how climate change is
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Who
Pays?
18 May 08
Muriel Newman
Last week the Parliamentary Commissioner for the
Environment came out in support of the Government’s
Emissions Trading Bill as the gateway to a ‘carbon-constrained
future’. Unfortunately the Commissioner has let New
Zealanders down.... More >>>
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Fred Singer: The
Global Warming Debate
In the past few years
there has been increasing concern about global climate
change... t
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influencing the global climate... and very little can be
done about global climate change. More
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Hon Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic: From
Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism
This week Muriel Newman met with
the President of Czech Republic at an International Conference on Climate Change in New York. The
President delivered a powerful speech; pointing to realities
that many governments, including our own, choose to ignore. Speech
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Prof David Bellamy:
The global warming myth
Am I
worried about carbon induced global warming? No because there
has been no sign of global warming in NZ since 1955. Yes because
it has become a political football that has lost its foundations
in real science...
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Bev Adair:
Child abuse, my story
I
know how it feels to have a life of apparently no value to
anyone. From my earliest years I lived with violence. I remember
knives, blood on walls, being beaten, being locked up in
cupboards, being molested by my Dad, being used by my mother's
men friends - she put me on show for them. I remember sitting in
the gutter outside the hotel waiting for my mother...
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Dr
Daniel Shayesteh: Islamisation
of the West
A
brief introduction of my background may help the reader to
better understand my comments concerning the plans of Islam for
non-Muslim nations. From early childhood, we learned that
Christians and Jews were unclean and Islam must take over the
world.
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Alan
Duff: Maori
under-performance
The law of
consequence – in other words, taking responsibility for
our own actions – has left the lexicon. Well, where
Maori are concerned it has. There’s always some
professional excuse-monger who leaps up and blames “the
system” or “government” or “Child, Youth &
Family” or “Western culture” on our every failing. More
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Lindsay
Perigo:Nanny State
Nanny State is
vicious, anti-human … and, as we speak, relentlessly
advancing. Who is she, this hybrid of gargoyle and
dominatrix? She is the strident, scolding, snooping
socialist, the control-freak who seeks to regulate every
aspect of our existence. More
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