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Graham Adams wrote an agenda setting article about how Winston was in an uncomfortable position regarding immigration because he signed the UN Migration Pact and had not fulfilled his election manifesto promise to sharply reduce immigration.
Mr Pompeo, who has been seeking to reassure allies following Mr Trump’s surprise announcement, said: “America will not retreat until the terror fight is over. We will labour tirelessly alongside you to defeat Isis [the Islamic State group], al-Qaeda and other jihadists that threaten our security and yours.”
He said that the US was a “force for good” in the Middle East, adding: “Where America retreats, chaos follows.”
Excuse the florid lexicon, but this claim is utter CRAP.
Is this the same Kelvin Davis who said he “doesn’t get involved in operational issues” as his excuse for not viewing video of me being assaulted by Auckland Prison staff while being transferred to Waikeria last Xmas ?
“If you wait by the river bank long enough you will see the body of your enemy float by”
I know National Party MP, Alfred Ngaro, He works hard for his Pacific constituents and he is passionate about being National’s spokesperson for Children and the Community, but revelations this week that he has been lodging 1000 written questions a single day to purposely clog up the resources of the Government are shameful.
In case someone out there, scoffs; ‘Who is Ross Meurant to pass judgement on our stout fellows in the front-line facing danger and death every day in the course of protecting the nation from evil,’ I respond as follows:
IN MY LAST POST I wrote about letting yesterday’s news languish, in the headlong pursuit of new news (however inane). To avoid that abyss, I shall now reflect on this Year’s news.
Some of the workers in Miro Unit grow vegetables in the prison garden for the local Womens Refuge .
However , the Refuge office has closed for the holidays and the lettuces are going to seed .
When we have so many Kiwis struggling to make ends meet on low wages and benefits, the idea of agreeing to politicians automatically gaining a 3% pay rise was wrong.
Yesterday the JusTrade.nz, site was launched. It builds on a two-day hui held in late October, convened by Auckland Law Professor Jane Kelsey, which debated what an alternative 21st Century progressive trade strategy for our counrty could look like.