by Mike Bee If you’ve not seen Kelvyn Alp on mainstream media press conferences or on televised debates, that’s not his fault. Tomorrow is the final day of voting for candidates in the Tamaki Makaurau by-election, but the mainstream approach has been to treat it as a “two-horse race”. You can have the incumbent Labour … Read more
by Mike Bee I hate the term “submission” but this is my statement, hurriedly written the night before the closing date, regarding the Gene Technology Bill. I/We wish to make the following comments: The market for non-GMO food is growing at a rate of 12.5% per year in North America, China and India. Throwing … Read more
by Mike Bee Trump’s recent praise of tech oligarch billionaires who wish to create gene therapy vaccinations using AI is disconcerting to some who had trusted him to this point. It is a mark of civilized people that they are able to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, and Mike Bee has … Read more
by Mike Bee A little while ago, I was forced to spend eight days in an Auckland hospital. These are some reflections of that time, written through the lens of poems I wrote from my bed. The first observation I make is that such a time gives a person many opportunities to look at life … Read more
by guest-writer Chrissie Cunningham On Saturday, 16th November, events took place around the country to commemorate RED REMEMBRANCE DAY – the day in 2021 that vaccine mandates were introduced into this country. These commemorations were organized by New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science, and many speakers gave their unique perspective on what vaccine … Read more
by guest-writer, Marilyn Parks Earlier last month, on 13th September, it was announced that New Zealand’s youngest MP – Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke from Te Pāti Māori, has been given a One Young World Politician of the Year Award. This award recognises four of the world’s most outstanding politicians between the ages of eighteen and 35, … Read more
by guest-writer, Marilyn Park, M.A. A critique of Claire Patolo’s thesis “Counterspin Media and COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand: Far-Right Extremism and the Undermining of Public Sphere and Public Health Principles’, (School of Communication Studies Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies AUT, 2023.) INTRODUCTION This thesis by Clare Patolo has already been reviewed once (see … Read more
by Thomas S. The New Zealand Transport Agency is assuming responsibility for speed-camera enforcement from the New Zealand Police, with the transition set to be completed by mid-2025. And given that the New Zealand Transport Agency recently published a tender for the operation of mobile cameras earlier this month, it seems that the plunder … Read more
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Thomas S. The recent loss of the OceanGate Titan submersible along with its crew in the North Atlantic Ocean has caught the attention of media outlets around the world. The expedition had set out to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, which lies in two sections, some 3,800 meters or so below the surface. Contact … Read more
