https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/video/mikes-minute-governments-wellbeing-budget-a-looming-disaster/

So as part of the Prime Minister's ongoing dream of living in a land of lollipops, landholding and general kumbaya, we have the mechanism used by the Treasury to put a monetary value on everything, despite the…

http://werewolf.co.nz/2019/01/gordon-campbell-on-mbies-social-media-scam

Back in December 2017, MBIE signed a three year contract worth $112,000 with the Wellington private security firm ZX Security Ltd, to train large numbers of its staff on how to create and maintain false identities on social media – in order …

The past month has devoted a lot of space to the best music and films of 2018, and far less to the past year’s human rights violations. The under-reporting on the ongoing carnage in Gaza has been a case in point. As of 12 January 2019, some 241 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in the protests along the Gaza fence that began last March. The grotesque disproportionality in the casualty figures – 241 Palestinians, two Israelis – …

New Zealand plans to be the first in the world to measure its success against how it does socially, culturally and environmentally

During her first major public address of the year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her Labour-led Government wanted to go further than the child poverty measures it had announced this…

The man whose head was almost cut in half by axe attacker Evie Amati in Sydney has broken his silence about his near death and his fury at her light prison sentence

Ben Rimmer has revealed how Amati slammed the axe into his face and in an exclusive interview told news.com.au, "If I hadn't turned my head at the last minute, she would have cut my head in half.

Rimmer has released…

One brand of e-liquid could cause a rather embarrassing situation for users after it has been found to contain viagra

Chinese vaping company, HelloCig Electronic Technology Co, could now face stiff penalties in the US after using the erection drugs Viagra and Cialis in their ingredients

There are warnings the drug could potentially cause erections that last up to two days and…

Vaping is becoming an increasingly popular activity but some argue it may also be hazardous to your health, with many opponents calling for the devices and accessories to be regulated in much the same way as cigarettes, particularly the e-liquids

Warnings emerged…

In international rankings, there's a club of usual suspects that more often than not does really well

Finland and other Nordic nations often come out on top, be it in quality of life, education or healthcare. On the other side of the world, New Zealand and Australia appear to have become members of that exclusive club, too, while the United States consistently misses out

When…

Australia's fierce summers are the stuff of legend - enough to turn even the hardiest of folks into a sticky, sweltering mess

But not the McDonald's soft serve, it appears…

As commenter Veridian pointed out on the blog recently, Jacinda Ardern is not a friend of women or a protector of women. Like Angela Merkel she is leading her fellow women to the slaughter. quote.                                     Westerners and especially Western women need to wake up fast since they are the ones in the immediate firing line. Their lives will be changed for the worse long before there’s any significant change to men’s lives. They…

https://www.unhcr.org/5b3295167

https://cloverchronicle.com/2018/12/16/angela-merkel-un-migration-compact-will-be-legally-binding/

Islamist terrorists suspected in murder of Scandinavian tourists in Morocco

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12180379

School children in the UK will be taught that "all genders" can have periods in new sex education lessons, in a victory for transgender rights campaigners. The advice to teachers was approved by Brighton & Hove City Council as they try to tackle stigma around menstruation. The new advice follows a council report which said: "Trans boys and men and non-binary people may have periods", adding that "menstruation must be inclusive of all genders". Bins used for menstruation products will be…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108836737/chicken-farmer-liable-for-deportation-uses-sroubek-decision-in-legal-bid

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/352604/white-south-african-farmers-need-help-from-a-civilised-country

https://capitalresearch.org/article/communists-funding-the-resistance-the-alliance-for-global-justice/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12170100