“They Are Not Us” – On The True Meaning Of An Impending Filmic Catastrophe
By now, many of will have seen the latest tranche of revelations from the leaked script for ‘They Are Us’….
Author: Curwen Rolinson
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On Responsibility For This Most Recent Covid Cross-Border Contretemps
Late Tuesday night, it was confirmed that a traveler from NSW with Covid-19 had boarded a flight to New Zealand and spent a weekend in Wellington. This is, obviously, not great – although a study of the causation of this occurrence is, perhaps, revealing.
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On Recent Claims Of Western Academia Being More “Nuts” Than North Korea Due To “Woke”
Recently, I had seen via several channels some remarks from a prominent North Korean defector declaring boldly that American universities (and presumably, by extension, much of the West’s intellectual culture) were more laden with indoctrination and psychological conditioning than her own native DPRK.
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On Recent Investigations Into The Lab-Leak Covid-19 Origins Theory
Probably the most interesting part of the recent investigation into the possibility of a “lab-leak” origin for Covid-19 … has…
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On Taiwan’s Recent Covid-19 Cluster
Unfortunate to hear this news out of Taiwan this evening, with Taipei moving into lockdown. They really had been (and in many ways still are) a singular success story for the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Properties Of Tino Rangatiratanga – On Judith Collins’ Convention Speech
I took a brief look through Judith Collins’ speech to the New Zealand National Party’s northern convention today and uh … “Article…
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Why You’re Being Told To Believe We’ve Just Sold Out To China
This whole thing about “JACINDA / LABOUR ARE CRASHING NEW ZEALAND OUT OF THE FIVE EYES BECAUSE THEY’RE SECRETLY IN LEAGUE WITH THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA – OR WISHING TO BE” meme is ridiculous.
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On Cultural Communication Amidst The Current Covid Cluster Management
I have seen a few comments about the place concerning Case M etc. – asking if maybe the Government didn’t do enough to communicate with the person (and family) in question in culturally relevant ways or a language he could understand.
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A Failure At The Border – What One Returnee’s Worrisome Experience Reveals About What’s Actually Going On In Isolation
What we’re dealing with here, with this story, is a microcosm of that. Some decision-making and some decision-makers at a managed isolation facility that have decided that “they are the law”, and so they’ll run the place as they see fit without regard for actual proper practice (let alone legality) in the matter. It’s not hard to see why this is dangerous – it already patently has been.
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On Damien Grant On Damien Grant On Covid-19, Hindsight, And Playing Russian Roulette With A Semi-Automatic Aimed At One’s Own Foot
Like a diminishing quotient of New Zealanders, I have the occasional expectation of finding something enthusing and enlightening in my Sunday newspaper. I also expect there is Damien Grant.