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With the new disclosures in the Biden corruption scandal, the media has, again, pivoted to avoid acknowledging the obvious. It now has a new demand before it will fully recognize or report on the scandal. Of course, after long repeating denials of Joe Biden that he ever knew about his son’s foreign business deals, the […]
“Illusion of Influence”: The Media Moves the Goalpost Again on Biden Corruption Coverage
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The Prime Minister is beginning to look like a lame duck However, he left co-governance in Three Waters and elsewhere untouched. With the media rooting for him — including blithely ignoring the fact he had been a lynch pin in Ardern’s Cabinet — Hipkins’ administration had an immediate bump in the polls. Suddenly Labour […]
GRAHAM ADAMS: Hipkins’ Government enters election season in disarray
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Reading the hardcopy Herald over lunch I spotted an article under the heading “Ministry boss apologises over spend-up”, referring to Mr Leauanae, the chief executive of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) as regards the events surrounding his farewell from his previous role as head of the Ministry of Pacific Peoples (MPP) and his […]
Laxity, or worse
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An estimated 42% of adult Japanese women may end up never having children, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing a soon-to-be-published estimate by a government research group. In a more optimistic scenario, a quarter of women born in 2005 may end up not having offspring. The midpoint estimate by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security […]
Japan estimate of the day
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Posted by Sara M. Butler, 10 August 2023. Chris Newman / Kirkconnel Church & Cemetery, Springkell. Wikimedia. Burial of the dead was a grave matter in medieval England. Last rites, a funeral mass, burial in consecrated ground – all were mandatory rituals intended to assist in the soul’s journey from the earthly realm to Purgatory and then […]
Legislating Sanctity: Protecting the Graveyard in Medieval England
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Most people will know the name ‘Enola Gay’ the plane that dropped the 1st Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but surprisingly not that many people will have heard of the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, some even think that Enola Gay dropped both. Bockscar, sometimes called Bock’s Car, is the name of the United […]
Bockscar the plane that dropped ‘Fat Man’ on Nagasaki
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I will not pass judgment about the event which involved the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay , there is nothing easier than to judge in hindsight. I try to stick to the facts as much as possible. These facts do actually start in 1937. What is often ignored in the whole debate of the dropping […]
Enola Gay
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Taking It From The Top: Though more than a century has passed since the outbreak of the First World War, there remains a deeply-embedded fraction of the New Zealand state apparatus which continues to regard New Zealand as simply a loyal cog in a much larger and more powerful imperial machine. Like their forebears, these…
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